proshore/laravel-image-upload

Easy image upload and thumbnail management

LARAVEL IMAGE

Basic image upload and thumbnail management package for laravel5., _(*1)

Installation

First, pull in the package through Composer., _(*2)

"require": {
    "proshore/laravel-image-upload": "dev-master"
}

And then, if using Laravel 5, include the service provider within config/app.php., _(*3)

'providers' => [
    LaravelImage\ImageUploadServiceProvider::class,
];

And, for convenience, add a facade alias to this same file at the bottom:, _(*4)

'aliases' => [
    'ImageHelper' => LaravelImage\Image::class,
];

Finally publish the configuration, _(*5)

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="LaravelImage\ImageUploadServiceProvider"

Configuration

You can add default thumbnail configuration to config/laravelimage.php., _(*6)

Usage

Uploading Image

Within your controllers, get access to image upload service via dependency injection, _(*7)

class ContentsController extends Controller
{
    ...

    protected $file;

    /**
     * @param ImageUploadService $file
     */
    public function __construct(ImageUploadService $file)
    {
        ...

        //set properties for file upload
        $this->file = $file;
        $this->file->setUploadField('image'); //default is image
        $this->file->setUploadFolder('contents'); //default is public/uploads/contents
    }

    ...

And then, in your store or update method you can perform image upload, _(*8)

/**
 * Store method
 */
public function store(ContentRequest $request)
{
    $input = $request->all();

    if (Input::hasFile('image') && $this->file->upload()) {
        //file is uploaded, get uploaded file info
        $uploadedFileInfo = $this->file->getUploadedFileInfo();

        ...
        //do whatever you like with the information
        $input = array_merge($input, $uploadedFileInfo);
    }

    ...
}

/**
 * Update method
 */
public function update(Request $request, $id)
{
    ...

    if (Input::hasFile('image') && $this->file->upload()) {
        ...

        //remove old files
        if ( ! empty($model->file_path)) {
            $this->file->clean(public_path($model->file_path), true);
        }
    }

    ...
}

Using facade to display images

Display from already registered thumbnails. It will try to generate new thumb if registered thumbnail doesn't exist., _(*9)

{!!
    \LaravelImage\LaravelImage::image($model->file_path, $model->image, [
        'alt' => $model->original_file_name,
        'size' => 'thumb'
    ])
!!}

Or, create image of custom size at runtime, _(*10)

{!!
    \LaravelImage\LaravelImage::image($model->file_path, $model->image, [
        'alt' => $model->original_file_name,
        'size' => [
            'custom' => ['w' => 300, 'h' => 200, 'crop' => true]
        ]
    ])
!!}

TODO

• Image cache implementation
• Complete documentation