Custom fileName/filePath prior toCollectionOnDisk

[spawn-guy]

I've seen it mentioned a few times, but here i am.
I am aware of feature to "rename" $media->file_name, but this is for After the saving on Disk and all the manipulations.

This doesn't work with \Spatie\MediaLibrary\FileAdder\FileAdder objects, that you "actually" get after $model->addMedia($request->file('contents'))

Also, as some ppl noticed: the copyToMediaLibrary does have an optional $subDirectory parameter. However, I haven't found a way(in the docs) to set this parameter anywhere.

Questions are:

• how to set targetFilename Prior the saveOnDisc?
• how to set $subDirectory (but this could break compatibility.. as file_name should also be updated)?
• if media->file_name will have sub-directories(slashes in file_name) will it break anything?

[freekmurze]

Hi, thanks for your input.

In the newly released v3.1.0 of the package there is a new method usingFileName() to choose the filename with which it gets added to the medialibrary.

$newsItem->addMedia('test.txt')->usingFileName('othertext.txt')->toMediaLibrary();

The above method only changes the name of the underlying file. If you want to change the name of the media object as well you can do this:

$newsItem
   ->addMedia('test.txt')
   ->usingName('some other name')
   ->usingFileName('othertext.txt')
   ->toMediaLibrary();

There is currently no support for using subdirectories. The copyToMediaLibrary-function is used internally by the package. There is an extra parameter there so the package can handle storing conversions.

I haven't tested using slashes in the filename, it might work for now, but I don't recommend it.