Share
Share links with Laravel, (*1)
This is a fork of John's share for Laravel 4., (*2)
Services available
- Blogger : blogger
- Digg : digg
- Email : email
- Evernote : evernote
- Facebook : facebook
- Gmail : gmail
- LinkedIn : linkedin
- Pinterest : pinterest
- Reddit : reddit
- Scoop.it : scoopit
- Telegram.me : telegramMe
- Tumblr : tumblr
- Twitter : twitter
- vk.com : vk
Installation
Install Composer dependency into your project, (*3)
composer require chencha/share
Usage
Get a link (example with Twitter), (*4)
Route::get('/', function()
{
return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'My example')->twitter();
});
Returns a string :, (*5)
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&text=Link+description
Get many links, (*6)
Route::get('/', function()
{
return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'Link description')->services('facebook', 'twitter');
});
Returns an array :, (*7)
{
"twitter" : "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&text=Link+description",
"facebook" : "https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&title=Link+description"
}
Get ALL the links, (*8)
Route::get('/', function()
{
return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'Link description')->services();
});
Returns an array of results for all defined services., (*9)
Customization
Publish the package config:, (*10)
php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Chencha\Share\ShareServiceProvider'
Add a new service in config/social-share.php:, (*11)
'mynewservice' => [ 'view' => 'share.mynewservice' ]
Add Blade templating code in share.mynewservice view file to generate a URL for mynewservice. You have access to:, (*12)
- service - the service definition (shown above).
- sep - separator used between parameters, defaults to '&'. Configurable as social-share.separator.
- url - the URL being shared.
- title - the title being shared.
- media - media link being shared.
Example:, (*13)
https://mynewservice.example.com?url={{ rawurlencode($url) }}<?php echo $sep; ?>title={{ rawurlencode("Check this out! $title. See it here: $url") }}
Another example for the email service. Change the service config to be [ 'view' => 'whatever' ] and put this in the view file:, (*14)
mailto:?subject={{ rawurlencode("Wow, check this: $title") }}<?php echo $sep; ?>body={{ rawurlencode("Check this out! $title. See it here: $url") }}
Localizing? Easy, use Laravel's trans() call:, (*15)
mailto:?subject={{ rawurlencode(trans('share.email-subject', compact('url', 'title', 'media'))) }}<?php echo $sep ?>body={{ rawurlencode(trans('share.email-body', compact('url', 'title', 'media'))) }}
Create a file at resources/lang/en/share.php with your choice of subject and body. URLs arguably have a maximum length of 2000 characters., (*16)
Notice the use of . It's the only way to print out an unencoded ampersand (if configured that way)., (*17)
Upgrades
When the package is upgraded, changes to the config and views should be republished into your project:, (*18)
php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Chencha\Share\ShareServiceProvider'
Use source control to work out what has changed if you have customized the files., (*19)