Thanks slace. I remeber seeing this now.

So, am I looking to put the path in the media.Image attribute then?

Sorry, this should probably be obvious.

Thanks,
Nik

I found a complete solution for this and thought it would make sense to share this in this post.

The following snippet is a slightly modified version of one that Paul Sterling posted on the old forum (thanks Paul for sharing):

     protected Media UmbracoSave(FileUpload uploadControl)
        {
            string mediaPath = "";
            Media m = null;
            if (uploadControl.PostedFile != null)
            {
                if (uploadControl.PostedFile.FileName != "")
                {
                    // Find filename
                    _text = uploadControl.PostedFile.FileName;
                    string filename;
                    string _fullFilePath;

                    filename = _text.Substring(_text.LastIndexOf("\\") + 1, _text.Length - _text.LastIndexOf("\\") - 1).ToLower();

                    // create the Media Node
                    // TODO:  get parent id for current category - as selected by user (see below)
                    // - for now just stick these in the media root :: node = -1
                    m = Media.MakeNew(
                        filename, MediaType.GetByAlias("image"), User.GetUser(0), 1219);

                    // Create a new folder in the /media folder with the name /media/propertyid
                    string mediaRootPath = HttpContext.GetGlobalResourceObject("AppSettings", "MediaFilePath") as string; // get path from App_GlobalResources
                    string storagePath = mediaRootPath + m.Id.ToString();
                    System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(storagePath);
                    _fullFilePath = storagePath + "\\" + filename;
                    uploadControl.PostedFile.SaveAs(_fullFilePath);

                    // Save extension
                    string orgExt = ((string)_text.Substring(_text.LastIndexOf(".") + 1, _text.Length - _text.LastIndexOf(".") - 1));
                    orgExt = orgExt.ToLower();
                    string ext = orgExt.ToLower();
                    try
                    {
                        m.getProperty("umbracoExtension").Value = ext;
                    }
                    catch { }

                    // Save file size
                    try
                    {
                        System.IO.FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(_fullFilePath);
                        m.getProperty("umbracoBytes").Value = fi.Length.ToString();
                    }
                    catch { }

                    // Check if image and then get sizes, make thumb and update database
                    if (",jpeg,jpg,gif,bmp,png,tiff,tif,".IndexOf("," + ext + ",") > 0)
                    {
                        int fileWidth;
                        int fileHeight;

                        FileStream fs = new FileStream(_fullFilePath,
                            FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);

                        System.Drawing.Image image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(fs);
                        fileWidth = image.Width;
                        fileHeight = image.Height;
                        fs.Close();
                        try
                        {
                            m.getProperty("umbracoWidth").Value = fileWidth.ToString();
                            m.getProperty("umbracoHeight").Value = fileHeight.ToString();
                        }
                        catch { }

                        // Generate thumbnails
                        string fileNameThumb = _fullFilePath.Replace("." + orgExt, "_thumb");
                        generateThumbnail(image, 100, fileWidth, fileHeight, _fullFilePath, ext, fileNameThumb + ".jpg");

                        image.Dispose();
                    }
                    mediaPath = "/media/" + m.Id.ToString() + "/" + filename;

                    m.getProperty("umbracoFile").Value = mediaPath;
                    m.XmlGenerate(new XmlDocument());
                }
            }

            // return the media...
            return  m;
        }

        protected void generateThumbnail(System.Drawing.Image image, int maxWidthHeight, int fileWidth, int fileHeight, string fullFilePath, string ext, string thumbnailFileName)
        {
            // Generate thumbnail
            float fx = (float)fileWidth / (float)maxWidthHeight;
            float fy = (float)fileHeight / (float)maxWidthHeight;
            // must fit in thumbnail size
            float f = Math.Max(fx, fy); //if (f < 1) f = 1;
            int widthTh = (int)Math.Round((float)fileWidth / f); int heightTh = (int)Math.Round((float)fileHeight / f);

            // fixes for empty width or height
            if (widthTh == 0)
                widthTh = 1;
            if (heightTh == 0)
                heightTh = 1;

            // Create new image with best quality settings
            Bitmap bp = new Bitmap(widthTh, heightTh);
            Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bp);
            g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
            g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
            g.PixelOffsetMode = PixelOffsetMode.HighQuality;

            // Copy the old image to the new and resized
            Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, widthTh, heightTh);
            g.DrawImage(image, rect, 0, 0, image.Width, image.Height, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

            // Copy metadata
            ImageCodecInfo[] codecs = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders();
            ImageCodecInfo codec = null;
            for (int i = 0; i < codecs.Length; i++)
            {
                if (codecs[i].MimeType.Equals("image/jpeg"))
                    codec = codecs[i];
            }

            // Set compresion ratio to 90%
            EncoderParameters ep = new EncoderParameters();
            ep.Param[0] = new EncoderParameter(Encoder.Quality, 90L);

            // Save the new image
            bp.Save(thumbnailFileName, codec, ep);
            bp.Dispose();
            g.Dispose();

        }

this is a really lovely bit of code and works perfectly for what i am trying to do in my development environment

but when i move it to the live environment i get a permissions errror

Access to the path '1102' is denied.

where 1102 is the name of the media node id it is trying to create

it does not  manage to create the folder

this is IIS7 on Win2k3 and  the Network Service has full control of the media folder

When I changed line 41 to 

<code>

 string mediaRootPath = "/media/"; // get path from App_GlobalResources

</code>

The File data (size, width, height, etc) are correctly stored in the Database, but again, the new media folder and file are not created.

L

I've run into the same problem. Did you already found the solution?

aah!  the files where crearted in C:/media/  instead of the right path... let me find out why that happend!

Have you created the additional key in the web.config file, under <appSettings>

Should be something like...

<add key="MediaFilePath" value="c:/inetpub/wwwroot/media/" />

/L

when I chaned  string mediaRootPath = "/media/"; // get path from App_GlobalResources to:

string mediaRootPath = "/inetpub/websites/clientname/www/media/"; // get path from App_GlobalResources

(my full path for the website)  everything is OK. It seems like the appsettings gives the wrong value...

Thanks.  This post has been helpful to me.  I'm not sure what this business about getting the media root path from appSettings is.  Wouldn't a simple Server.MapPath("~/media") suffice?  Or am I missing something?

Just thought I would post a reply here, since I found a much easier way to do this in 4.9 using code from the umbraco source (not sure if it was this easy in older versions):

Just create a PostedMediaFile from your file stream, create an UmbracoImageMediaFactory (specifically if you are doing images - there is also one for other files), and call DoHandleMedia, passing in the current media item and PostedMediaFile you just created.

PostedMediaFile postedMediaFile = new PostedMediaFile
{
    FileName = YourFileName,
    DisplayName = YourDisplayName,
    ContentLength = StreamLength,
    InputStream = Stream,
    ReplaceExisting = true
};
UmbracoImageMediaFactory factory = (UmbracoImageMediaFactory)MediaFactory.GetMediaFactory(parentNodeId, postedMediaFile, new User(0));
factory.DoHandleMedia(ucImage, postedMediaFile, new User(0));

Too easy!

Nice one Daniel, worked great for me! :D

HI

When i click the save button i got the following error

'The SaveAs method is configured to require a rooted path, and the path '1233' is not rooted.'

this 1233 is Make a New folder ..... how to rectify this error

Kindly reply me

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