Laravel Nova Media Library

Tool and Field for Laravel Nova that will let you managing images and add them to the posts as single image or gallery

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Configuration
• Customization
• Screenshots

Install

composer require classic-o/nova-media-library

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ClassicO\NovaMediaLibrary\ToolServiceProvider"

php artisan migrate

php artisan storage:link

Usage

Add the below to the tools function in app/Providers/NovaServiceProvider.php

public function tools()
{
    return [
        new \ClassicO\NovaMediaLibrary\NovaMediaLibrary(),
    ];
}

Add Field to the resource

use ClassicO\NovaMediaLibrary\MediaField;

class Post extends Resource
{
    ...
     public function fields(Request $request)
        {
            return [
                ...
                MediaField::make('Image', 'image'),
                ...
            ];
        }
    ...
}

Configuration

# config/media-library.php
return [

	# Will use to return base url of app.
	'url'       => env('APP_URL', '') . '/storage',

	# Will use to put file uploads in `/storage/app/public`
	'folder'    => '/media/',

	# Organize my uploads into year-month based folders.
	# `/storage/app/public/{folder}/YYYY-MM/`
	'split'     => true,

	# This option let you to filter your image by extensions.
	'type'      => ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif', 'svg'],

	# The number of files that will be returned with each step.
	# (The tool loads images from a folder not all at once).
	'step'      => 40,

];

Customization

By default, this field is used as single image. If you need set field as gallery, add method:

MediaField::make('Image', 'image')
          ->isGallery()

If you want to hide the gallery under the accordion, add the following method

MediaField::make('Image', 'image')
          ->isGallery()
          ->isHidden()

Screenshots