PHP v2 migration guide (Beta)

Introduction

Cloudinary PHP SDK 2 is designed to provide a simpler and more enhanced developer experience. This guide will explain how to migrate from your existing PHP SDK version, including the changes you’ll need to make to your code and any other considerations.

Key improvements for SDK 2:

• A new action-based syntax, designed to make building delivery URLs and transformations more logical and discoverable.
  • When compiled to the final delivery URL, each action represents a different component (separated by a '/').
• Newly added autocomplete to list options and parameters and ensure only those that are supported can be used together.

For full documentation on the PHP SDK 2, see the SDK guide.

Prerequisites

Before installing the SDK ensure you have removed the existing SDK 1 dependency from your application.

Installation

Install the SDK using composer in the same way as your existing version, specifying the new version you want to install.

For example:

composer config repositories.cloudinary_php_v2 vcs https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_php_v2.git
composer require cloudinary/cloudinary_php:2.0.0-beta

You can also install manually by downloading the package from the GitHub repository and it including it in your project.

Migration

As part of migrating to SDK 2, you will need to update your code in order to retain your existing functionality and allow you to take advantage of the new functionality. The main difference between SDK 2 and older versions is the way your media is delivered. SDK 2 provides a new syntax for building your delivery URLs, designed to make it simpler and more logical. You may also need to update the way you set your global configuration. There is also a small change to the way you access upload and administration methods, this will require minor refactoring.

Configuration

If you currently set your configuration using the CLOUDINARY_URL environment variable, you will not need to make a change to this. If you set your configuration globally, you will need to update this to be compatible with SDK 2.

You can set your configuration using an instance of the Configuration class:

Configuration::instance(['account' => ['cloud_name' => 'n07t21i7', 'key' => '123456789012345', 'secret' => 'abcdeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12']]);

Alternatively, if you require multiple instances, you can use the Cloudinary object, for example:

$cloudinary = new Cloudinary(
    [
        'account' => [
            'cloud_name' => 'n07t21i7',
            'key'        => '123456789012345',
            'secret'     => 'abcdeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12',
        ],
    ]
);

Upload

The upload method in SDK 2 is no longer a static method. To upload assets to Cloudinary you will now need to use the UploadApi class.

use Cloudinary\Api\Upload\UploadApi;

Update all instances of the upload method to use the method from the UploadApi class, rather than the Cloudinary Uploader.

For example to upload the image "my_image":

#SDK 1.x
\Cloudinary\Uploader::upload("my_image.jpg")

Becomes:

#SDK 2.x
(new UploadApi())->upload('my_image.jpg')

You can find more detailed documentation in the PHP SDK 2 guide.

Admin

Similar to upload, the admin methods are now accessed from the AdminApi class.

For example to get details of an asset using the resource method:

#SDK 1.x
require "cloudinary.php";
require "api.php";
$api = new \Cloudinary\Api();
$result = $api->resource("sample");

Becomes:

#SDK 2.x
use Cloudinary\Api\Admin\AdminApi;
$result = (new AdminApi())->resource("sample");

You can find more detailed documentation in the PHP SDK 2 guide.

Delivery

The SDK provides a fromParams helper method to make the initial migration as easy as possible. This method takes the original transformations in the old syntax as a parameter. SDK 2 also uses a new syntax for creating Cloudinary URLs and media tags. You will need to replace the old syntax with the correct new syntax.

You will need to update any instance of:

• cloudinary_url
• cl_image_tag
• cl_video_tag

Cloudinary URLs

To migrate your Cloudinary URLs from SDK 1 to SDK 2, you will need to replace the cloudinary_url helper method with a new media instance and use the fromParams helper method.

For example:

#SDK 1.x
cloudinary_url("actor", array("transformation"=>array(
  array("effect"=>"cartoonify"),
  array("radius"=>"max"),
  array("effect"=>"outline:100", "color"=>"lightblue"),
  array("background"=>"lightblue"),
  array("height"=>300, "crop"=>"scale")
  )))

Becomes:

#SDK 2.x
Media::fromParams("actor", array("transformation"=>array(
  array("effect"=>"cartoonify"),
  array("radius"=>"max"),
  array("effect"=>"outline:100", "color"=>"lightblue"),
  array("background"=>"lightblue"),
  array("height"=>300, "crop"=>"scale")
  )));

Cloudinary image and video tags

For image and video tags, replace the current cl_image_tag and cl_video_tag with ImageTag and VideoTag respectively and include the fromParams helper method.

For example:

#SDK 1.x
cl_image_tag("actor", array("transformation"=>array(
  array("effect"=>"cartoonify"),
  array("radius"=>"max"),
  array("effect"=>"outline:100", "color"=>"lightblue"),
  array("background"=>"lightblue"),
  array("height"=>300, "crop"=>"scale")
  )))

Becomes:

#SDK 2.x
ImageTag::fromParams("actor", array("transformation"=>array(
  array("effect"=>"cartoonify"),
  array("radius"=>"max"),
  array("effect"=>"outline:100", "color"=>"lightblue"),
  array("background"=>"lightblue"),
  array("height"=>300, "crop"=>"scale")
  )));

Additional types

If content within your delivery URL where an image is delivered from a video or vice versa, you’ll need to identify the delivery type and use the correct delivery method. For example, if you wanted to deliver a thumbnail image from a video, with SDK 1.x you could use cl_image_tag and set the resource_type to "video":

#SDK 1.x
cl_image_tag("dog.jpg", array("start_offset"=>"4", "width"=>350, "height"=>350, "radius"=>20, "effect"=>"grayscale", "border"=>"5px_solid_black", "crop"=>"crop", "resource_type"=>"video"))

For SDK 2.x you need to deliver the correct media type, for this example you would use VideoThumbnailTag:

#SDK 2.x
VideoThumbnailTag::fromParams("dog.jpg", array("start_offset"=>"4", "width"=>350, "height"=>350, "radius"=>20, "effect"=>"grayscale", "border"=>"5px_solid_black", "crop"=>"crop", "resource_type"=>"video"));