bahmanshams / shareable-link
Conveniently generate shareable URLs for various social media websites
Requires
- php: ^7.2
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^7.2
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2024-10-09 17:08:28 UTC
README
Introduction
Conveniently generate shareable URLs for a variety of different social media websites, using the syntax each uses for their own links.
Installation
You can install this package with Composer using the following command:
composer require bahmanshams/shareable-link:^1.0.0
Example Usage
$url = new \BahmanShams\ShareableLink('http://example.com/', 'Example Site'); // Alternatively, with the helper function: // shareable_link('http://example.com/', 'Example Site'); echo $url->facebook; // https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=ABC123&href=https://example.com/&display=page&title=Example+Site echo $url->twitter; // https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://example.com/&text=Example+Site echo $url->whatsapp; // https://wa.me/?text=Example+Site+https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F echo $url->linkedin; // https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite?url=https://example.com
Facebook Link Notes
A link shareable through Facebook requires an app ID from the platform. By default, this will attempt to be obtained through a FACEBOOK_APP_ID
environment variable. However, if this environment variable does not exist, or you need to pass through different app IDs for different URLs, you can pass one through explicitly to the getFacebookUrl()
method.
$url = new \BahmanShams\ShareableLink('http://example.com/', 'Example Site'); putenv('FACEBOOK_APP_ID=ABC123'); echo $url->facebook; // https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=ABC123&href=https://example.com/&display=page&title=Example+Site echo $url->getFacebookUrl('XYZ789'); // https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=XYZ789&href=https://example.com/&display=page&title=Example+Site
Laravel Model Trait
If you're using Laravel and want to be able to use these methods directly from an Eloquent model as a convenient method, you can simply create one.
The advantage of this is that you get full control over the URL and title you want to be used while still keeping a fluent syntax.
class News extends Model { public function getShareUrlAttribute(): \BahmanShams\ShareableLink { $url = route('news.show', $this->slug); return new \BahmanShams\ShareableLink($url, $this->title); } }
You can then proceed to use the pseudo-attribute method as you would use the normal class.
$news->share_url->twitter;
Credits
- Liam Hammett for the original article that prompted this
- Denis Smink for the original article that prompted this