How to change image directory in spatie media library? - laravel

Question

I'm new to this package since I usually use the image intervention. So the problem is whenever I save an image, it is saving in storage directory instead of in public directory. I tried to review the documentation and did some research and didn't see any answer. Please see my code below for saving.
$user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars');
Package:
https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-medialibrary/v7/introduction

Answer 1

you can simply define the filesystem config with $user->addMediaFromRequest('avatar')->toMediaCollection('avatars', 'disk');
here is how im using the package(simple usage), if you need it later
on my model:
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia\HasMedia;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\HasMedia\HasMediaTrait;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\Models\Media;
class User extends Model implements HasMedia
{
use HasMediaTrait;
public function registerMediaCollections()
{
$this
->addMediaCollection('avatar')
->singleFile()
->useDisk('public');
->useFallbackUrl(asset('/images/default-user.png'))
->useFallbackPath(public_path('/images/default-user.png'));
}
public function registerMediaConversions(Media $media = null)
{
$this->addMediaConversion('avatar-thumb')->width(120)->height(120);
}
...
to get the file-url im using model accessor, added this function in my model:
public function getAvatarAttribute()
{
$file = $this->getMedia('avatar')->first();
if($file) {
$file->url = $file->getUrl();
$file->thumbnail = $file->getUrl('avatar-thumb'));
$file->alternate = $file->getCustomProperty('alternate') ?: $file->file_name;
}else{
$file = new \StdClass;
$file->url = $this->getFallbackMediaUrl('avatar');
$file->thumbnail = public_path('/images/default-user-thumb.png');
$file->alternate = 'avatar.png';
}
return $file;
}
also using custom path, in config\medialibrary.php set this array 'path_generator' => Path\To\Your\Class::class,
then the class :
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\Models\Media;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\PathGenerator\PathGenerator as PathGenerators;
class PathGenerator implements PathGenerators
{
public function getPath(Media $media): string
{
return $this->getBasePath($media).'/';
}
public function getPathForConversions(Media $media): string
{
return $this->getBasePath($media).'/conversions/';
}
public function getPathForResponsiveImages(Media $media): string
{
return $this->getBasePath($media).'/responsive-images/';
}
protected function getBasePath(Media $media): string
{
//here im using trait to generate default path, e.g: path/mimes/avatar/media->id
//its up to you to define folder structure, just make sure each folder
//for conversions has unique name, or else it will be deleted
$base_folder = $this->get_base_folder($media->mime_type);
return "{$base_folder}/{$media->collection_name}/{$media->getKey()}";
}
}