yii2mod/yii2-link-preview

LinkPreview widget renders page preview

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Type:yii2-extension

1.3 2016-11-22 14:10 UTC

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README

LinkPreview widget automatically retrieves some information from the content of the link.

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Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yii2mod/yii2-link-preview "*"

or add

"yii2mod/yii2-link-preview": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

  1. Execute init migration:
php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/yii2mod/yii2-link-preview/migrations
  1. Define preview action in your controller:
public function actions()
{
    return [
        'link-preview' => LinkPreviewAction::className()
    ];
}
  1. Add widget to your page as follows:
echo LinkPreview::widget([
    'selector' => '#your-input-id or .someclass',
    'clientOptions' => [
        'previewActionUrl' => \yii\helpers\Url::to(['link-preview'])
    ],
])

Example of usage with the ActiveForm and saving the page info

  1. Create the basic form in the view:
<?php $form = \yii\widgets\ActiveForm::begin() ?>
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="preview">Preview</label>
        <input name="preview" class="form-control" id="preview" placeholder="Preview">
    </div>
    <?php echo \yii2mod\linkpreview\LinkPreview::widget([
        'selector' => '#preview',
        'clientOptions' => [
            'previewActionUrl' => \yii\helpers\Url::to(['link-preview'])
        ],
    ]) ?>
    <div class="form-group">
        <?= \yii\helpers\Html::submitButton('Save', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']) ?>
    </div>
<?php \yii\widgets\ActiveForm::end() ?>
  1. Add the following code to your action for the saving page info:
$model = new LinkPreviewModel();
if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $model->validate()) {
    $model->save();
}

// or the short version 

$linkPreviewId = LinkPreviewModel::saveAndGetId(Yii::$app->request->post());

GitHub Preview Example

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Video Link Preview Example

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