Media Library

• Requirements
• Installation
• Setup & Usage
• Reordering multiple files (index)
• Preview images in tables
• Pruning old media
• Testing
• License

This package integrates Filament v3/v4/v5 with the waad/media manager. It is an alternative to spatie/laravel-medialibrary for projects on waad/media. The MediaUpload form component aligns with your Eloquent model’s registerCollections() (single vs multiple, disks, labels).

#Requirements

• PHP: ^8.1
• Filament: ^3.0|^4.0|^5.0
• Livewire: ^3.5|^4.0
• waad/media: ^4.1

#Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require waad/filament-media

#Setup & Usage

Since this package works in tandem with waad/media, your Eloquent Models should use the HasMedia trait and implement registerCollections: waad/media Package.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Waad\Media\MediaServiceProvider"

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Waad\Media\HasMedia;

class Post extends Model
{
    use HasMedia;

    public function registerCollections(array $attributes = []): array
    {
        return [
            'avatar' => [
                'disk' => 's3',
                'bucket' => 'avatars',
                'label' => 'User Avatar',
                'single' => true, // Only keeps one file
            ],
            'gallery' => [
                'disk' => 'public',
                'bucket' => 'photos',
                'label' => 'Photo Gallery',
                'single' => false, // Allows multiple files
            ],
        ];
    }
}

MediaUpload::make('name') uses the field name as the waad/media collection by default. Call ->collection(...) only when the Filament field name should differ from the collection key (string), or when the collection must be resolved at runtime (Closure); pass null to rely on evaluation falling back to the field name.

Now, in your Filament resource or form:

use Waad\FilamentMedia\Forms\Components\MediaUpload;

public static function form(Form $form): Form
{
    return $form
        ->schema([
            // Single file when registerCollections has 'single' => true for this key
            MediaUpload::make('avatar'),

            // Multiple files when 'single' => false; reorderable uses waad/media `index`
            MediaUpload::make('gallery')
                ->reorderable()
                ->image()
                ->maxSize(2048),

            // Single vs multiple follows `registerCollections`; other FileUpload APIs apply as usual
        ]);
}

The component loads existing media IDs for previews, syncs new uploads via syncMedia, removes files with deleteMedia, and persists reorder when only existing items change.

#Reordering multiple files (index)

For collections with 'single' => false, you can enable drag-and-drop reordering with Filament’s reorderable() (same as FileUpload). Order is stored in waad/media’s index column on the media table.

• Loading the form: existing files are listed sorted by index, then by id, so the UI matches the saved order.
• Saving the form: when only existing media are present (no new uploads in that save), the component writes the current list order back to the database as index values (1, 2, 3, …) for that collection.

MediaUpload::make('gallery')
    ->reorderable()
    ->image(),

Use this together with a multi-file collection in registerCollections(). Single-file collections ignore ordering.

#Preview images in tables

In list/table views, use Filament’s ImageColumn and resolve URLs from your model with waad/media’s getCollectionUrls() (provided by HasMedia). Pass the same collection name you use in registerCollections() and in MediaUpload::make(...).

use Filament\Tables\Columns\ImageColumn;

ImageColumn::make('banner')
    ->getStateUsing(fn ($record) => $record->getCollectionUrls('banner')),
ImageColumn::make('gallery')
    ->getStateUsing(fn ($record) => $record->getCollectionUrls('gallery')),

• For a single-file collection ('single' => true), getCollectionUrls typically returns one URL string (or an empty value when there is no file).
• For a multi-file collection, it returns an array of URLs; ImageColumn can show them as a stacked preview when the state is an array.

Adjust the column name (banner here) to match your collection key.

#Pruning old media

waad/media registers the media:prune Artisan command. It removes media files and database rows according to the retention setting prune_media_after_day in your published config/media.php (see the waad/media docs for details).

Run it manually or on a schedule (for example Laravel’s scheduler in routes/console.php):

php artisan media:prune

#Testing

This package uses Pest for testing. To run tests:

composer test

#License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.