Setting image description with multiple image upload.

[Martijn Geerts]

Hello, I don't know how to set the description when uploading multiple images through the api.

So far images get uploaded nicely.

// instantiate the class and give it the name of the HTML field
$u = new WireUpload('uploads');

// tell it to only accept 5 files
$u->setMaxFiles(5);

// tell it to rename rather than overwrite existing files
$u->setOverwrite(false);

// have it put the files in their final destination. this should be okay since
// the WireUpload class will only create PW compatible filenames
$u->setDestinationPath($page->images->path);

// tell it what extensions to expect
$u->setValidExtensions(array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png'));

// execute() returns an array, so we'll foreach() it.
foreach($u->execute() as $filename) {
$page->images->add($filename);
}

// save the page
$page->save();

[Martijn Geerts]

It took a while, but I found the sulution:

foreach($u->execute() as $key => $filename) {
$page->images->add($filename);
$page->images->eq($key)->description = 'what you want to say about the image';
}

[Soma]

How about

foreach($u->execute() as $filename) {

$img = $page->images->add($filename);

$img->description = "what you want to say about the image";

}

Edit: guess not. But it should also be possible to create a pagefile and add description before adding.

$page->setOutputFormatting(false); // or $page->of(false);
foreach($u->execute() as $filename) {
 $img = new Pageimage($page->images, $filename);
 $img->description = "what you want";
 $page->images->add($img);
}
$page->save();
$page->setOutputFormatting(true); // or $page->of(true);

Not tested but should work. I'm sure Ryan will come up with something else. But the solution you found is totally valid and also nice.

[Martijn Geerts]

lol, I'll take yours up in my code as reference, btw your's is easier to understand.

[Soma]

Just made a little test and changed code to add setOutputFormatting to false. This is required to get it to work.

[Martijn Geerts]

Actually in the real scenario the image is saved to in an other "parent", that parent & children doesn't have to render at all. For the forum it is good to have a complete working version of the actual page.

[ryan]

You should also be able to grab the last image and add the description to it:

$page->images->add($filename); 
$page->images->last()->description = "description";