Add Images Programatically without a form

Permalink 4 users found helpful April 19, 2017 at 1:55 PM

Hi,

I'm migrating content from a site (not done by me) to a new version I'm building and I need to import and attach images to pages but I'm having a bit of trouble importing the images.
here's the code I'm trying to use:

//Create Page and add attributes to it, this part works just fine...
$parentPage = \Page::getByID('156');
$pageType = \PageType::getByHandle('event');
$template = \PageTemplate::getByHandle('events');
$entry = $parentPage->add($pageType, array(
    'cName' => $title,
    'cDescription' => '$description',
    'cHandle ' => $th->urlify($title)
), $template);
//Image Import
Loader::library("file/importer");
$importer = new \Concrete\Core\File\Importer();
$importer->import($imgSrc);
$newFile = $importer->import($imgSrc);
$entry->setAttribute('thumbnail', $newFile);

The images are in a folder on the server, I tried using a path from domain and also the server path, with identical results (nothing happens).
I also thought of importing everything through the File Manager and mapping the images with the content but I didn't find an option to get an image object by it's name, only ID.
I think It worked one time, I don't know why and got me a bit confused because I couldn't make it work again so clearly something must be wrong on that code, the weird thing is I don't think I changed anything relevant from the time it worked..

Can anyone help out?
Thanks

ESKEMA replied on Apr 19, 2017 at 2:42 pm Permalink Reply

So after more tries, It's working using the full server path to the image, but now it throws an error adding it as attribute:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Concrete\Core\File\Version::isError()

I thought using

$newFile = $importer->import($imgSrcLocal);

would return the file object, but apparently it doesn't??

ESKEMA replied on Apr 19, 2017 at 2:58 pm Permalink Best Answer Reply

Ok got it working finally.
here's the final code in case someone wants to do the same:

$imgSrc = '/full/server/path/to/file.jpg';
Loader::library("file/importer");
$importer = new \Concrete\Core\File\Importer();
$newFileVersion = $importer->import($imgSrc);
$newFile = $newFileVersion->getFile();
// If you want the file ID to use elsewhere
// $newFileID = $newFileVersion->getFileID(); 
$page->setAttribute('thumbnail', $newFile);