arietimmerman/laravel-url-shortener

Laravel Package for shortening urls

, _(*1)

A minimal Laravel package for shortening URLs. Apart for creating short URLs - like bitly - it also supported updating URL redirects and tracking URL clicks., _(*2)

Laravel URL Shortener

Install the package. It supports Laravel 5.5 and up (including 7.0 and up)., _(*3)

composer require arietimmerman/laravel-url-shortener
php artisan migrate

And start shortening URLs, _(*4)

~~~.php (string)URLShortener::shorten("http://www.example.com");, _(*5)

Or

~~~.bash
php artisan url:shorten http://www.example.com

Usage for Laravel < 5.5

Add the service provider in your config/app.php., _(*6)

~~~.php 'providers' => [ /* [..] / \ArieTimmerman\Laravel\URLShortener\ServiceProvider::class / [..] */ ];, _(*7)

## Optional

Publish the configuration and the view.

~~~.php
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ArieTimmerman\Laravel\URLShortener\ServiceProvider"

Optionally, register for URLVisit events in your EventServiceProvider., _(*8)

~~~.php protected $listen = [ 'ArieTimmerman\Laravel\URLShortener\Events\URLVisit' => [ 'App\Listener\YourListener', ] ];, _(*9)

## Configuration

See `config/urlshortener.php`

## Docker

Build and start the docker container.

docker-compose build docker-compose up, _(*10)

Now shorten an URL like this

docker-compose exec laravel-url-shortener php artisan url:shorten https://www.example.com, _(*11)

Check out the redirect

curl -v http://localhost:18123/code ~~~, _(*12)