[TYPO3-dam] Getting the uid of the Media folder

[georg kuehnberger]

Ahoi Francois,

Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was wondering whether there was a canonical way of getting the uid of 
> the Media sysFolder? 

Thanks for your question! I asked that one myself too often, though was 
too lazy to investigate and resorted back to setting the PID via the 
EXT-Config of my new extensions.

I'm trying to insert records into the DAM from an
> extension and I obviously need to set the pid inside the tx_dam record. 
OK

> I know I could just query the page table for a page called "Media", but 
better not, as
- Pagetitle "Media" is not unique and can be renamed anyway;
- better might be something like:
SELECT uid FROM pages WHERE module = dam
but still not good enough as there might be multiple occurences of this 
one, too.

> I thought that there's maybe a helper function for that in the DAM.
> Cheers

Thanks to your interest I finally looked it up and luckily here we go, 
see below:
regards georg

something like
  tx_dam_db::getPid()
should do fine

see:
dam/lib/class.tx_dam_db.php
---
	/**
	 * Returns a single pid of a DAM folder.
	 * This pid have to be used for storage of DAM records.
	 *
	 * For fetching data getPidList() have to be used.
	 *
	 * @return	integer		Current/default DAM folder pid for storage.
	 */
	function getPid () {
		global $TYPO3_CONF_VARS;

		static $pid = 0;
		
		if(!$pid AND is_object($GLOBALS['TSFE'])) {
			// get pid from TS
			
			//
			//  plugin.tx_dam.defaults {
			//  // The pid of the media folder. Needs to be set when multiple 
media folders exist
			//  pid =
			$pid = intval(tx_dam::config_getValue('plugin.defaults.pid')); # 
$GLOBALS['TSFE']->tmpl->setup['plugin.']['tx_dam.']['defaults.']['pid']);
		}

		if(!$pid) {
			require_once(PATH_txdam.'lib/class.tx_dam_sysfolder.php');
			$pid = tx_dam_sysfolder::init();
		}
		return $pid;
	}