Umbraco how to use image property id to get URL
Solution 1
Solutioin if anyone happens to stumbles upon this:
var bannerId = Umbraco.Media(banner.image); //banner.image is the property id.
var bannerUrl = bannerId.Url;
Solution 2
To do the same within an MVC controller / API Contoller once you have the "media ID" you can also use the UmbracoHelper.
var umbracoHelper = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
var image = umbracoHelper.Media(mediaID); // mediaID = the (int)ID of the media
var imageURL = image.url; // imageURL now has the site root relative path of the media item
Solution 3
It's much better to use strongly typed models in Umbraco nowadays:
var bannerMediaItem = Umbraco.TypedMedia(banner.image); //banner.image is the property id.
var bannerUrl = bannerMediaItem.Url;
Comments
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rtn almost 4 years
Ok am am very new to Umbraco/C# and what I am trying to do is loop through a custom media type to build banners for the home page of my application and the @bannerUrl always returns the images property id and not the file path to the resource. How would you go about retrieving the image file path from a custom media type created in Umbraco.
See code for example:
var mediaFolder = Umbraco.Media(mediaFolderId); var banners = mediaFolder.Children(); foreach (var banner in banners) { var bannerUrl = banner.image; <div style="background-image:url(@bannerUrl);"></div> }
The variable
bannerUrl
always returns the image id by default and not the file path for the URL. How can I get the file path working? When inspecting the contents of the banner object in the debugger in VS I notice of the Url property has the following error:Url = 'banner.Url' threw an exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException'
You would of though I could use something along the .Url lines but that dose not seem to work, so any suggestions how I would go about getting the URL the image property in Umbraco using the Dynamic way.
Thanks.
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Ḟḹáḿíṅḡ Ⱬỏḿƀíé over 8 yearsStumbled upon and used. Many thanks for straightforward solution.
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Base33 over 7 yearsYou don't want to use this. This accesses the database and does slow down page loading time. Use the UmbracoHelper, specified below.