Laravel Media Manager

A Laravel companion package to work with thesold/vue-media-manager to provide a ready-made Media Manager interface with back-end.

Installation

composer require thesold/laravel-media-manager

This package uses auto-loading in Laravel 5.5

For Laravel 5.1 - 5.4 load the Service Provider and Facde.

// config/app.php

'providers' => [
    ...
    Thesold\LaravelMediaManager\MediaServiceProvider::class,
];

You are free to publish the laravelmediamanager.php config to customise the package, however we recommend using environment variables to specify required settings.

Drivers

Default (File) driver

The default driver uses the Intervention Image library to perform basic resizing and cropping. You can customise the image and upload folders.

# .env

LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_DRIVER=default
LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_FOLDER=media # The folder inside the public path where resized images are stored
LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_UPLOAD_FOLDER=mediamanager # The upload folder within the storage directory where original images (uploads) are stored. These are not publicly accessible

Cloudinary driver

Cloudinary is a cloud based media library offering excellent image optimisation and resizing including facial recognition and focal point cropping. A free cloudinary account is required to use this driver.

# .env

LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_DRIVER=cloudinary
LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_CLOUD_NAME=cloudinary-cloud-name
LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_API_KEY=cloudinary-api-key
LARAVELMEDIAMANAGER_API_SECRET=cloudinary-api-secret

Usage

The package includes all routes, middleware and controllers to enable the Vue media library. Simply install thesold/vue-media-manager and follow the instructions to specify your Laravl Media Manager URL.

Support

If you require any support please contact me on Twitter or open an issue on this repository.

License

GPL-3.0