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activismebe/share

Share links with Laravel 5

Wednesday, December 13, 2017
by Tjoosten
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The README.md

Share links with Laravel 5, _(*1)

This is a fork to John's share for Laravel 4., _(*2)

Services available

Delicious : delicious
Digg : digg
Email : email
Evernote : evernote
Facebook : facebook
Gmail : gmail
Google Plus : gplus
LinkedIn : linkedin
Pinterest : pinterest
Reddit : reddit
Scoop.it : scoopit
Telegram.me : telegramMe
Tumblr : tumblr
Twitter : twitter
Viadeo : viadeo
vk.com : vk

Installation

Step 1 : Install Composer dependency, _(*3)

composer require activismebe/share

Step 2 : Register the Service Provider, _(*4)

Add Chencha\Share\ShareServiceProvider to providers array in config/app.php, _(*5)

Step 3 : Register Alias, _(*6)

Add Share => Chencha\Share\ShareFacade to aliases array in config/app.php, _(*7)

Usage

Get a link (example with Twitter), _(*8)

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'My example')->twitter();
});

Returns a string :, _(*9)

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&text=Link+description

Get many links, _(*10)

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'Link description')->services('facebook', 'gplus', 'twitter');
});

Returns an array :, _(*11)

{
    "gplus" : "https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com",
    "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, _(*12)

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return Share::load('http://www.example.com', 'Link description')->services();
});

Returns an array of results for all defined services., _(*13)

Customization

Publish the package config:, _(*14)

php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Chencha\Share\ShareServiceProvider'

Add a new service in config/social-share.php:, _(*15)

'mynewservice' => [ 'view' => 'share.mynewservice' ]

Add Blade templating code in share.mynewservice view file to generate a URL for mynewservice. You have access to:, _(*16)

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:, _(*17)

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:, _(*18)

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:, _(*19)

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., _(*20)

Notice the use of . It's the only way to print out an unencoded ampersand (if configured that way)., _(*21)