How to stop Joomla Media Manager making your image names lowercase!

I recently developed a simple module that loaded in images automatically based off a folder/file structure in the images folder. The name of the file would dictate the caption underneath the image requiring names of files to be descriptive and capitalized correctly. I didn’t realise at the time I built this module that Media Manager converts all filenames to lowercase by default. I did a quick Google and found several people asking how to switch this off but no answers.

I needed to switch this off so I did some quick searches of the admin folder and found the answer.

Open the file:
/administrator/components/com_media/controllers/file.php

If you do a search in the file for ‘strtolower’ you should find a line of code that looks like this:
(line 58 in the version of Joomla 1.5 I was working on)

$filepath = JPath::clean(COM_MEDIA_BASE.DS.$folder.DS.strtolower($file['name']));

Simply change this line to look like this:

$filepath = JPath::clean(COM_MEDIA_BASE.DS.$folder.DS.$file['name']);

And thats all there is to it. Now you can have any capitalization at all in your filenames.