Changes to the original package

This forked package eliminates the IsSorted Trait from Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media, so the sorting/ordering part could be made by spatie/eloquent-sortable. I have also added the spatie/eloquent-sortable as a dependency.

Installation

This package uses "spatie/eloquent-sortable": "^3.11" together with "spatie/laravel-medialibrary": "^9.0.0" and it can be installed through Composer:

composer require lartisan/laravel-sortable-medialibrary

In Laravel 5.5 and above the service provider will automatically get registered. In older versions of the framework just add the service provider in config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    ...
    Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider::class,
    Spatie\EloquentSortable\EloquentSortableServiceProvider::class,
];

Optionally you can publish the config files with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaLibraryServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\EloquentSortable\EloquentSortableServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Usage

To add the intended Eloquent sortable behaviour to your custom Media model you must:

1. Implement the Spatie\EloquentSortable\Sortable interface.
2. Use the trait Spatie\EloquentSortable\SortableTrait.
3. Optionally specify which column will be used as the order column. The default is order_column.
4. Optionally, if your model/table has a grouping field, you can create a buildSortQuery method at your model.

Example:

...
use Spatie\EloquentSortable\Sortable;
use Spatie\EloquentSortable\SortableTrait;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media as BaseMedia;

class MyCustomMedia extends BaseMedia implements Sortable
{
    use SortableTrait;
    
    /**
     * Define the column used for sorting
     * @var array
     */
    public $sortable = [
        'order_column_name' => 'order_column',
        'sort_when_creating' => true,
    ];

    /**
     * @return Builder
     */
    public function buildSortQuery(): Builder
    {
        return static::query()
            ->where('collection_name', $this->collection_name);
    }
    ...
}

To add the default sort of the original package behaviour to your custom Media model

You could still use the default IsSorted behaviour of the original package by adding the Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Concerns\IsSorted to your model.

Example:

...
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Concerns\IsSorted;
use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media as BaseMedia;

class MyCustomMedia extends BaseMedia
{
    use IsSorted;
}

Documentation

The original spatie/laravel-medialibrary package.

The spatie/eloquent-sortable package.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.