Share

Share links with Laravel 5 and meta generator

This is a fork to Checha share for Laravel 5.

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
• Tumblr : tumblr
• Twitter : twitter
• Viadeo : viadeo
• vk.com : vk

Installation

Step 1 : Install Composer dependency

composer require hilioski/social-share-and-meta-generator

Step 2 : Register the Service Provider

Add Chencha\Share\ShareServiceProvider to providers array in config/app.php

Step 3 : Register Alias

Add Share => Chencha\Share\ShareFacade to aliases array in config/app.php

Usage

Generate OG Meta data

Share::generateMeta(
    'http://www.example.com',
    'website',
    'My example',
    'http://www.example.com/img/header-bg.jpg',
    'Example.com',
    'Some description about the page'
);

Definition of generateMeta() function is:

generateMeta($url = '', $type = 'website', $title = '', $image = '', $site_name = '', $description = '')

Get a link (example with Twitter)

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

Returns a string :

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

Get many links

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

Returns an array :

{
    "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

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

Returns an array of results for all defined services.

Customization

Publish the package config:

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

Add a new service in config/social-share.php:

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

Add Blade templating code in share.mynewservice view file to generate a URL for mynewservice. You have access to:

• 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:

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:

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:

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.

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