# Sharp built-in solution for uploads

Uploads are painful.

Sharp provide a very opinionated and totally optional solution to handle if you are using Eloquent and the WithSharpFormEloquentUpdater trait (see related documentation).

The proposal is to use a special Sharp Model for all your uploads, and to link them to your Models with Eloquent's Morph relationships.

# Use `SharpUploadModel`

The base Model class is Code16\Sharp\Form\Eloquent\Uploads\SharpUploadModel. Just create your own Model class and make it extends this base class.

You'll have to define the Eloquent $table attribute to indicate the table name. So for instance, let's say your Model name choice is Media, here's the class code:

use Code16\Sharp\Form\Eloquent\Uploads\SharpUploadModel;

class Media extends SharpUploadModel
{
    protected $table = "medias";
}

# Generator

php artisan sharp:make:media <model_name> --table=<table_name>

# Create the migration

Sharp provides an artisan command for that: sharp:create_uploads_migration <table_name>

Pass your specific table name in the table_name argument ("medias" in our example).

This command will create a migration file like this one:

class CreateMediasTable extends Migration
{
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('medias', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->morphs('model');
            $table->string('model_key')->nullable();
            $table->string('file_name')->nullable();
            $table->string('mime_type')->nullable();
            $table->string('disk')->default('local')->nullable();
            $table->unsignedInteger('size')->nullable();
            $table->text('custom_properties')->nullable();
            $table->unsignedInteger('order')->nullable();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('medias');
    }
}

# Link to your Models

Now, you need to define the relationships. Let's say you have a Book model, and you want the user to be able to upload its cover and PDF version.

class Book extends Model
{
	public function cover()
    {
        return $this->morphOne(Media::class, "model")
            ->where("model_key", "cover");
    }

    public function pdf()
    {
        return $this->morphOne(Media::class, "model")
            ->where("model_key", "pdf");
    }
}

# Use it!

Let's pretend you already have data in this new table, here how to handle it.

# Properties

By default, you can get the file_name, but also mime_type and file's size.

# Custom properties

You can add whatever property you need through custom properties, by setting it:

$book->cover->author = "Tomi Ungerer";

Custom properties will be stored in the custom_properties column, as JSON.

You can retrieve the value the same way:

$author = $book->cover->author;

# Thumbnails

Thumbnail creation, for image, is built-in, with this function:

thumbnail($width=null, $height=null, $filters=[]);

You must first define the thumbnail directory, in Sharp's config:

// config/sharp.php

"uploads" => [
    "thumbnails_dir" => "thumbnails",
],

This path is relative to the public directory.

Then you can call $thumb = $book->cover->thumbnail(150) to have a full URL to a 150px (width) thumbnail.

# Filters

The third argument is for Filters. For now, only two are available:

greyscale
->thumbnail(150, null, ["greyscale" => []])
fit: this one has 2 params, w for width and h for height, and will center-fit the image in those constraints.
->thumbnail(150, null, ["fit" => ["w"=>150, "h"=>100]])

But of course you can provide here a custom one. You'll need for that to first create a Filter class that extends Code16\Sharp\Form\Eloquent\Uploads\Thumbnails\ThumbnailFilter, implementing:

function applyFilter(Intervention\Image\Image $image): apply you filter, using the great Intervention API (opens new window).
function resized(): (optional, default to false) Return true if the resize is part of the applyFilter() code.

Once the class is created, pass the full class path as filter name:

return $this->thumbnail($size, $size, [
    CustomThumbnailFilter::class => ['w' => $w, 'fill' => '#ffffff']
]);

# Update with Sharp

The best part is this: Sharp will take care of everything related to update and store.

First declare your upload, like usual:

function buildFormFields()
{
    $this->addField(
        SharpFormUploadField::make("cover")
            ->setLabel("Cover")
            ->setFileFilterImages()
            ->setCropRatio("1:1")
            ->setStorageDisk("local")
            ->setStorageBasePath("data/Books")
    );
}

Then add a customTransformer:

function find($id): array
{
    return $this
        ->setCustomTransformer(
            "cover",
            new SharpUploadModelFormAttributeTransformer()
        )
        ->transform(
            Book::with("cover")->findOrFail($id)
        );
}

The full path of this transformer is Code16\Sharp\Form\Eloquent\Uploads\Transformers\SharpUploadModelFormAttributeTransformer.

And finally, and this is a sad exception to the "don't touch the applicative code for Sharp", add this in your Model that declares an upload relationship (Book, in our example):

public function getDefaultAttributesFor($attribute)
{
    return in_array($attribute, ["cover"])
        ? ["model_key" => $attribute]
        : [];
}

This will tell SharpEloquentUpdater to add the necessary model_keyattribute when creating a new upload.

And... voilà! From there, Sharp will handle the rest.

# Updating custom attributes

So we want to add an author custom attribute to our cover field: for this we add the field in the Sharp Entity Form, using the : separator to designate a related attribute:

$this->addField(
    SharpFormTextField::make("cover:author")
        ->setLabel("Author")
);

Here we intend to update the author attribute of the cover relation.

# What about upload lists?

So let's say we want to add pictures of inner pages, for our Book. It can be easily done by creating a morphMany relation in the Book Model:

public function pictures()
{
    return $this->morphMany(Media::class, "model")
        ->where("model_key", "pictures")
        ->orderBy("order");
}

And then add the field in the Sharp Entity Form:

$this->addField(
    SharpFormListField::make("pictures")
        ->setLabel("Additional pictures")
        ->setAddable()->setAddText("Add a picture")
        ->setRemovable()
        ->setSortable()
        ->setOrderAttribute("order")
        ->addItemField(
            SharpFormUploadField::make("file")
                ->setFileFilterImages()
                ->setStorageDisk("local")
                ->setStorageBasePath("data/Books/Pictures")
        )
);

Note that we use the special file key for the SharpFormUploadField in the item.

You'll have next to update your Model special getDefaultAttributesFor() function:

public function getDefaultAttributesFor($attribute)
{
    return in_array($attribute, ["cover","pictures"])
        ? ["model_key" => $attribute]
        : [];
}

All set.

# Updating custom attributes in upload lists

$this->addField(
    SharpFormListField::make("pictures")
        [...]
        ->addItemField(
            SharpFormUploadField::make("file")
        )
        ->addItemField(
            SharpFormTextField::make("legend")
        )
);

In this code, the legend designates a custom attribute.

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