confused about multiple databases

[jeff-h]

So our Laravel app uses two databases: app and resources. Both store various models which will use laravel-medialibrary eg

• the app db stores user models and
• the resources db stores models for story, quotes etc

I've created the media db table in both databases.

I haven't overridden the default Media class, so that's still using the default connection (app). I don't see a way to have a second (custom) Media class for the resources models (eg stories).

Yet the following puts an entry into the resources db:

Story::find(1)->addMedia('cake.jpg')->toMediaCollection('feature');

That's not a problem — it's actually what I'd hope for, I guess, but I'm confused whether I'm going about this the right way (particularly having the media db table in both databases)?

[AntonLugtenburg]

You can also have a main database that stores media models for different model on different databases,

that would be done like this

namespace App\Models;

use Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media as BaseMedia;

class Media extends BaseMedia
{
    protected $connection = 'app';
}

And set this Model as default media model in the media library config...

In that case, every model would store and retrieve it from you app database