Add images to product description content programatically in Magento2

Question

I want to add images to my product description content block but I don't want these specific images to appear in the product gallery ('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail').

To add regular images I do it the following way:

$product->addImageToMediaGallery($imagePath, array('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail'), false, false);
$product->save();

For my description I could do something like that:

$descr = "<img src='".$media_path."' />";
$product->setDescription($desc);

And get the path of images using:

$productimages = $product->getMediaGalleryImages();

Is there any other type of image I could use to achieve my goal ? Or what way should I use to upload these image and reuse them in my product description ?

Answer 1

Please add this to your Standalone script.

foreach (new DirectoryIterator('./descr_images') as $fileInfo) {
    if ($fileInfo->isDot()) {
        continue;
    }
    $imagePath = $fileInfo->getFilename(); // path of the image
    $filesystemIo = $objectManager->create('\Magento\Framework\Filesystem\Io\File');
    $filePath = ''; // Path of your local directory image
    $copyFileFullPath = $mediaPath . $imagePath;
    $filesystemIo->cp($filePath, $copyFileFullPath);
    $mediaPath = $objectManager->get('Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface')->getStore()->getBaseUrl(\Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_MEDIA);
    $descImage = "<img src='" . $mediaPath . $imagePath . "'/>";
    $productDesc = $product->getDescription();
    $product->setDescription($productDesc . $descImage);
    $product->save();
}

Clear cache and then check it.