Image ID's

@ Jack

There are no image IDs… the images are uploaded with the name the image was uploaded with. They can be found in the ../wp-content/uploads/connections-images/ folder.

Hope that helps!

@ Jack

Sorry, no, Connections does not integrate with the Media Library. Giving users access to that is a security risk as the media library allows files other than images to be uploaded as well as see images they may not be permitted to have access to. There are now ways around these, but, when Connections was originally developed there were none.

If you need to get images into the Media Library in addition to Connections… you could write an extension which hooks into the cn_post_process_add-entry and cn_post_process_update-entry actions and side load the images into the media library but those images image would be in no way linked to the entry.

@ Jack

The devil is in the details as far as costs to have this developed… a service I do provide. Please feel free to contact me using the Contact link at the very bottom of this page to take it to an email conversation.

@ Jack

Yes, I received it. I will be replying to it very shortly. Working thru my email and support queue from the weekend right now.

For anyone look to do the same, here’s how:

Install the Code Snippets plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code:

add_action( 'cn_post_process_add-entry', 'cn_insert_image_into_media_library' );
add_action( 'cn_post_process_update-entry', 'cn_insert_image_into_media_library' );

function cn_insert_image_into_media_library( $entry ) {

    $image = $entry->getimageMeta();

    if ( ! is_wp_error( $image ) ) {

        /* 
         * Read the contents of the upload directory. We need the
         * path to copy the file and the URL for uploading the file.
         */
        $uploads = wp_upload_dir();
        $uploads_dir = $uploads['path'];
        $uploads_url = $uploads['url'];

        // Copy the file from the root directory to the uploads directory
        copy( $image['path'], trailingslashit( $uploads_dir ) . $image['name'] );

        /* 
         * Get the URL to the file and grab the file and load 
         * it into WordPress (and the Media Library)
         */
        $url = trailingslashit( $uploads_url ) . $image['name'];
        $result = media_sideload_image( $url, 0, $image['name'] );

        // If there's an error, then we'll write it to the error log.
        if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) {
            error_log( print_r( $result, true ) );
        }
    }
}

Save and Activate the new snippet.

Now, anytime a photo is uploaded, whether it is on an entry being added or an entry being updated, it will be duplicated in the Media Library.