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I created a function to retrieve the original path of an image stored in database.
public function getImageWork($suffix)
{
$basePath = 'uploads/works/';
$fullname = pathinfo($this->images, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$imageWork = $basePath . $fullname . $suffix;
if (file_exists($imageWork)) {
return URL('/') . '/' . $imageWork;
} else {
return $imageWork = URL('/') . '/img/no-avatar.jpg';
}
}
I create several different image sizes that I store in the same folder from the same name but at the end I add, for example, _cover or _thumb and thanks to this function, it allows me in my view to make $ image->getImageStudents('_ thumb.jpg')
Only, I'm in front of a different case and I can't make it work.
I have an image gallery, and in my DB, the images are stored under an array.
["uploads/img1.jpg","uploads/img2.jpg","uploads/img3.jpg"…]
How I can do to change my function so that in my foreach, it works.
Here I do pathinfo($this-> images) but by doing that, I recuperate the entire array, and I can not seem to work.
thank you very much

I would split the code up in two functions, where one function takes in an image variable instead of relying on this.
Something like this:
public function getImageWork($suffix)
{
if (!is_array($this->images)) {
return $this->getSingleImageWork($this->images, $suffix);
}
$output = [];
foreach ($this->images as $image) {
$output[] = $this->getSingleImageWork($images, $suffix);
}
return $output;
}
public function getSingleImageWork($image, $suffix) {
$basePath = 'uploads/works/';
$fullname = pathinfo($image, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$imageWork = $basePath . $fullname . $suffix;
if (file_exists($imageWork)) {
return URL('/') . '/' . $imageWork;
}
return $imageWork = URL('/') . '/img/no-avatar.jpg';
}
Note: I am not sure how the variables are, but I assume here that $this->images is either a variable of some kind, or a array of values.

To accommodate both single value and array for images in getImageWork method, you need to refactor it in the following way,
public function getImageWork($suffix = ""){
$basePath = 'uploads/works/';
$imagePathArr = array();
$images = is_array($this->images) ? $this->images : array($this->images);
foreach($images as $image){
$fullname = pathinfo($image, PATHINFO_FILENAME);
$imageWork = $basePath . $fullname . $suffix;
if (file_exists($imageWork)) {
$imagePathArr[] = URL('/') . '/' . $imageWork;
} else {
$imagePathArr[] = URL('/') . '/img/no-avatar.jpg';
}
}
return $imagePathArr;
}
As an output, the above method will return an array of image paths which you can use later in the codebase.