Base installation

Preparing the database

You need to publish the migration to create the media table:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="medialibrary-migrations"

After that, you need to run migrations.

php artisan migrate

Publishing the config file

Publishing the config file is optional:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="medialibrary-config"

This is the default content of the config file:

return [

    /*
     * The disk on which to store added files and derived images by default. Choose
     * one or more of the disks you've configured in config/filesystems.php.
     */
    'disk_name' => env('MEDIA_DISK', 'public'),

    /*
     * The maximum file size of an item in bytes.
     * Adding a larger file will result in an exception.
     */
    'max_file_size' => 1024 * 1024 * 10,
    
    /*
     * This queue connection will be used to generate derived and responsive images.
     * Leave empty to use the default queue connection.
     */
    'queue_connection_name' => '',

    /*
     * This queue will be used to generate derived and responsive images.
     * Leave empty to use the default queue.
     */
    'queue_name' => '',

    /*
     * By default all conversions will be performed on a queue.
     */
    'queue_conversions_by_default' => env('QUEUE_CONVERSIONS_BY_DEFAULT', true),

    /*
     * The fully qualified class name of the media model.
     */
    'media_model' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media::class,

    /*
     * The fully qualified class name of the model used for temporary uploads.
     *
     * This model is only used in Media Library Pro (https://medialibrary.pro)
     */
    'temporary_upload_model' => Spatie\MediaLibraryPro\Models\TemporaryUpload::class,

    /*
     * When enabled, Media Library Pro will only process temporary uploads there were uploaded
     * in the same session. You can opt to disable this for stateless usage of
     * the pro components.
     */
    'enable_temporary_uploads_session_affinity' => true,

    /*
     * When enabled, Media Library pro will generate thumbnails for uploaded file.
     */
    'generate_thumbnails_for_temporary_uploads' => true,

    /*
     * This is the class that is responsible for naming generated files.
     */
    'file_namer' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\Support\FileNamer\DefaultFileNamer::class,

    /*
     * The class that contains the strategy for determining a media file's path.
     */
    'path_generator' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\Support\PathGenerator\DefaultPathGenerator::class,

    /*
     * When urls to files get generated, this class will be called. Use the default
     * if your files are stored locally above the site root or on s3.
     */
    'url_generator' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\Support\UrlGenerator\DefaultUrlGenerator::class,

    /*
     * Whether to activate versioning when urls to files get generated.
     * When activated, this attaches a ?v=xx query string to the URL.
     */
    'version_urls' => false,

    /*
     * The media library will try to optimize all converted images by removing
     * metadata and applying a little bit of compression. These are
     * the optimizers that will be used by default.
     */
    'image_optimizers' => [
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Jpegoptim::class => [
            '-m85', // set maximum quality to 85%
            '--strip-all', // this strips out all text information such as comments and EXIF data
            '--all-progressive', // this will make sure the resulting image is a progressive one
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Pngquant::class => [
            '--force', // required parameter for this package
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Optipng::class => [
            '-i0', // this will result in a non-interlaced, progressive scanned image
            '-o2', // this set the optimization level to two (multiple IDAT compression trials)
            '-quiet', // required parameter for this package
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Svgo::class => [
            '--disable=cleanupIDs', // disabling because it is known to cause troubles
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Gifsicle::class => [
            '-b', // required parameter for this package
            '-O3', // this produces the slowest but best results
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Cwebp::class => [
            '-m 6', // for the slowest compression method in order to get the best compression.
            '-pass 10', // for maximizing the amount of analysis pass.
            '-mt', // multithreading for some speed improvements.
            '-q 90', //quality factor that brings the least noticeable changes.
        ],
        Spatie\ImageOptimizer\Optimizers\Avifenc::class => [
            '-a cq-level=23', // constant quality level, lower values mean better quality and greater file size (0-63).
            '-j all', // number of jobs (worker threads, "all" uses all available cores).
            '--min 0', // min quantizer for color (0-63).
            '--max 63', // max quantizer for color (0-63).
            '--minalpha 0', // min quantizer for alpha (0-63).
            '--maxalpha 63', // max quantizer for alpha (0-63).
            '-a end-usage=q', // rate control mode set to Constant Quality mode.
            '-a tune=ssim', // SSIM as tune the encoder for distortion metric.
        ],
    ],

    /*
     * These generators will be used to create an image of media files.
     */
    'image_generators' => [
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Image::class,
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Webp::class,
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Avif::class,
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Pdf::class,
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Svg::class,
        Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\ImageGenerators\Video::class,
    ],

    /*
     * The path where to store temporary files while performing image conversions.
     * If set to null, storage_path('media-library/temp') will be used.
     */
    'temporary_directory_path' => null,

    /*
     * The engine that should perform the image conversions.
     * Should be either `gd` or `imagick`.
     */
    'image_driver' => env('IMAGE_DRIVER', 'gd'),

    /*
     * FFMPEG & FFProbe binaries paths, only used if you try to generate video
     * thumbnails and have installed the php-ffmpeg/php-ffmpeg composer
     * dependency.
     */
    'ffmpeg_path' => env('FFMPEG_PATH', '/usr/bin/ffmpeg'),
    'ffprobe_path' => env('FFPROBE_PATH', '/usr/bin/ffprobe'),

    /*
     * Here you can override the class names of the jobs used by this package. Make sure
     * your custom jobs extend the ones provided by the package.
     */
    'jobs' => [
        'perform_conversions' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\Conversions\Jobs\PerformConversionsJob::class,
        'generate_responsive_images' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\ResponsiveImages\Jobs\GenerateResponsiveImagesJob::class,
    ],

    /*
     * When using the addMediaFromUrl method you may want to replace the default downloader.
     * This is particularly useful when the url of the image is behind a firewall and
     * need to add additional flags, possibly using curl.
     */
    'media_downloader' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\Downloaders\DefaultDownloader::class,

    'remote' => [
        /*
         * Any extra headers that should be included when uploading media to
         * a remote disk. Even though supported headers may vary between
         * different drivers, a sensible default has been provided.
         *
         * Supported by S3: CacheControl, Expires, StorageClass,
         * ServerSideEncryption, Metadata, ACL, ContentEncoding
         */
        'extra_headers' => [
            'CacheControl' => 'max-age=604800',
        ],
    ],

    'responsive_images' => [
        /*
         * This class is responsible for calculating the target widths of the responsive
         * images. By default we optimize for filesize and create variations that each are 20%
         * smaller than the previous one. More info in the documentation.
         *
         * https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-medialibrary/v11/responsive-images/getting-started-with-responsive-images
         */
        'width_calculator' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\ResponsiveImages\WidthCalculator\FileSizeOptimizedWidthCalculator::class,

        /*
         * By default rendering media to a responsive image will add some javascript and a tiny placeholder.
         * This ensures that the browser can already determine the correct layout.
         */
        'use_tiny_placeholders' => true,

        /*
         * This class will generate the tiny placeholder used for progressive image loading. By default
         * the media library will use a tiny blurred jpg image.
         */
        'tiny_placeholder_generator' => Spatie\MediaLibrary\ResponsiveImages\TinyPlaceholderGenerator\Blurred::class,
    ],

    /*
     * When enabling this option, a route will be registered that will enable
     * the Media Library Pro Vue and React components to move uploaded files
     * in a S3 bucket to their right place.
     */
    'enable_vapor_uploads' => env('ENABLE_MEDIA_LIBRARY_VAPOR_UPLOADS', false),

    /*
     * When converting Media instances to response the media library will add
     * a `loading` attribute to the `img` tag. Here you can set the default
     * value of that attribute.
     *
     * Possible values: 'lazy', 'eager', 'auto' or null if you don't want to set any loading instruction.
     *
     * More info: https://css-tricks.com/native-lazy-loading/
     */
    'default_loading_attribute_value' => null,
    
     /*
     * You can specify a prefix for that is used for storing all media.
     * If you set this to `/my-subdir`, all your media will be stored in a `/my-subdir` directory.
     */
     'prefix' => env('MEDIA_PREFIX', ''),

    /*
     * When forcing lazy loading, media will be loaded even if you don't eager load media and you have
     * disabled lazy loading globally in the service provider.
     */
    'force_lazy_loading' => env('FORCE_MEDIA_LIBRARY_LAZY_LOADING', true),
];

Adding a media disk

By default, the media library will store its files on Laravel's public disk. If you want a dedicated disk you should add a disk to config/filesystems.php. This would be a typical configuration:

    ...
    'disks' => [
        ...

        'media' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => public_path('media'),
            'url'    => env('APP_URL').'/media',
            'visibility' => 'public',
            'throw' => false,
        ],
    ...

Don't forget to .gitignore the directory of your configured disk, so the files won't end up in your git repo.

To store all media on that disk by default, you should set the disk_name config value in the media-library config file to the name of the disk you added.

// config/media-library.php

return [
    'disk_name' => 'media',

    // ...
];

Want to use S3? Then follow Laravel's instructions on how to add the S3 Flysystem driver. If possible, we recommend using a remote filesystem like S3 instead of your local filesystem to prevent security issues.

Setting up a queue

If you are planning on working with image manipulations it's recommended to configure a queue on your server and specify it in the config file.

Setting up optimization tools

Media library will use these tools to optimize converted images if they are present on your system:

Here's how to install all the optimizers on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install jpegoptim optipng pngquant gifsicle libavif-bin
npm install -g svgo

If you don't want to install npm on your Ubuntu server, you can use snap which is installed by default:

sudo apt install jpegoptim optipng pngquant gifsicle libavif-bin
sudo snap install svgo

Here's how to install the binaries on MacOS (using Homebrew):

brew install jpegoptim
brew install optipng
brew install pngquant
brew install svgo
brew install gifsicle
brew install libavif

Installing Media Library Pro

Media Library Pro is an optional add-on package that offers Blade, Vue, and React components to upload files to your application. It integrates beautifully with the laravel-medialibrary.

You can buy a license for Media Library Pro on the product page at spatie.be.

To install Media Library Pro, you should follow these instructions.

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Base installation

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##Preparing the database

##Publishing the config file

##Adding a media disk

##Setting up a queue

##Setting up optimization tools