Alt and title tags

[t2thec]

Hey. Just wondering if there is a way to easily add custom fields to the preview image? It would be great to add alt tags, title tags and perhaps a URL tag so it can be used for banners etc. perhaps 'surpass_ids[]' could become a multi dimensional array? Or preview_images could be extended?

Thanks for building the package. Awesome.

[SUKOHI]

Hi, T2theC. Thank you for your comment. Oh, adding attributes is a great idea.:)))

I don't have define idea yet but I'm considering to add attributes() method like the following.

->attributes([ 'img' => ['alt' => 'image_alt'], .... ])

I'll think a little more about it.

I appreciate your help. Have a good day!!

[t2thec]

That's brilliant. My thoughts are that they should be saved with surpass_ids. That way you could use the same image in different posts but have different attributes - which could be better for seo. If it is saved with the image, then you lose a bit of control.

Thanks Sikhs. Have a good one!

[t2thec]

Sorry! Autocorrect changed your name! Thanks Sukohi.

[SUKOHI]

Hi, T2theC. At first, I likely misunderstood your idea a little.(Sorry!)

After all, I decided to add a function to the package that can save attributes when being called save() method like this.

$attributes = array('alt' => 'alt_value', 'title' => 'title_value');

if($surpass->save($attributes)) { // Something.. }

And now, we can retrieve the attributes (and image-tag) like this.

$attributes = $load_item->attributes; $tag = $load_item->tag;

Thank you again.:)))

[t2thec]

Thanks Sukohi. That sounds awesome. I'll have a play shortly. So is there a way to manually change the attributes? How would I create and 'alt' or 'title'?

If I upload an image to /upload and it is saved, Can I then make changes to the attributes?

I am starting to think I missed something. Are there any views that should be published? I have published as per your example, but nothing in /public/packages - I'm guessing this is just for the JS and HTML?

Thanks again.

[SUKOHI]

Oh, so sorry! I forgot to say something. I guess you need to execute the next command because I added new column called "attributes" to the table.

php artisan migrate --package=sukohi/surpass

By this command attributes column should be added through the new migration.

If you'd like to change "attributes", you can use DB or Model(Elequent) as usual like this.

DB::table('image_files') ->where('id', 1) ->update(array('attributes' => json_encode(array('alt' => 'value'))));

or

After making a model file for "image_files",

$image_file = ImageFile::find(1); $image_file->attributes = json_encode(array('alt' => 'new value')); $image_file->save();

Note: Attributes data must be json (or empty);

I could add update() method, if I need it in the next development.

Thank you.:)))