corcel VS laravel-medialibrary

It's here, but you may prefer Composer, the package manager for PHP:

Or alternatively - there are php packages for working directly with a wp database outside of wordpress: https://github.com/williarin/wordpress-interop, https://github.com/corcel/corcel

If you go this route, Corcel https://github.com/corcel/corcel is great.

You could also try something like Corcel for heavier emphasis on Laravel usage.

Another thing you may want to keep up your sleeve to transition between the two is Corcel, which lets you use WP for the backend/body, and Laravel to render the frontend/head of an application.

There are "bridges" like https://github.com/corcel/corcel

- https://github.com/corcel/corcel

I have it working ok for a single image using this idea but need the user to be able to add multiple images.

The current version as of writing this is 10.5.2 released 8 days ago.

Use this, i use it in all my projects.

An example of a good use of a polymorphic relationship can be seen in the Rails Active Storage module, which allows you to attach files to a model, and instead of duplicating the database columns and tables for each model that has attachments, there are two general tables: activestorage_attachments (attachments; relationship info) and activestorage_blobs (blobs; file info). A model can have one or many attachments (has_one_attachment and has_many_attachments, both can be used more than once depending on your needs), an attachment belongs to a record (record_id and record_type) and belongs to a blob (blob_id), and blobs have one attachment. You can access an attachment attribute on the related model like so, user.avatar # has_one_attachment(:avatar); or for many attachments of the same type, user.photos # an array of attachments; has_many_attachments(:photos). There’s a Laravel package similar to this called spatie/laravel-medialibrary.

For storing files and associating them with models, I can highly recommend Spatie's Media Library. Used it in a project recently and haven't had any hassle with it.