Laravel Share

Share links exist on almost every page in every project, creating the code for these share links over and over again can be a pain in the ass. With Laravel Share you can generate these links in just seconds in a way tailored for Laravel.

Available services

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google Plus
• Linkedin
• Whatsapp

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require jorenvanhocht/laravel-share

If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    Jorenvh\Share\Providers\ShareServiceProvider::class,
];

And optionally add the facade in config/app.php

// config/app.php
'aliases' => [
    ...
    'Share' => Jorenvh\Share\ShareFacade::class,
];

Publish the package config & resource files.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jorenvh\Share\Providers\ShareServiceProvider"

This will publish the laravel-share.php config file to your config folder, share.js in public/js/ and laravel-share.php in your resources/lang/vendor/en/ folder.

Fontawesome

Since this package relies on Fontawesome, you will have to require it's css, js & fonts in your app. You can do that by requesting a embed code via their website or by installing it locally in your project.

Laravel share supports Font Awesome v4 and v5, by default v4 is used. You can specify the version you want to use in config/laravel-share.php

Javascript

Load jquery.min.js & share.js by adding the following lines to your template files.

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="{{ asset('js/share.js') }}"></script>

Usage

Creating one share link

Facebook

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be')->facebook();

Twitter

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be', 'Your share text can be placed here')->twitter();

Google Plus

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be')->googlePlus();

Linkedin

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be', 'Share title')->linkedin('Extra linkedin summary can be passed here')

Whatsapp

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be')->whatsapp()

Sharing the current url

Instead of manually passing an url, you can opt to use the currentPage function.

Share::currentPage()->facebook();

Creating multiple share Links

If want multiple share links for (multiple) providers you can just chain the methods like this.

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be', 'Share title')
	->facebook()
	->twitter()
	->googlePlus()
	->linkedin('Extra linkedin summary can be passed here')
	->whatsapp();

This will generate the following html

<div id="social-links">
	<ul>
		<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-facebook-official"></span></a></li>
		<li><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=my share text&amp;url=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a></li>
		<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-google-plus"></span></a></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http://jorenvanhocht.be&amp;title=my share text&amp;summary=dit is de linkedin summary" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a></li>
		<li><a href="https://wa.me/?text=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-whatsapp"></span></a></li>    
	</ul>
</div>

Optional parameters

Add extra classes and id's to the social buttons

You can simply add extra class(es) or id('s) by passing an array as the third parameter on the page method.

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be', null, ['class' => 'my-class', 'id' => 'my-id'])
    ->facebook();

Which will result in the following html

<div id="social-links">
	<ul>
		<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button my-class" id="my-id"><span class="fa fa-facebook-official"></span></a></li>
	</ul>
</div>

Custom wrapping

By default social links will be wrapped in the following html

<div id="social-links">
	<ul>
		<!-- social links will be added here -->
	</ul>
</div>

This can be customised by passing the prefix & suffix as a parameter.

Share::page('http://jorenvanhocht.be', null, [], '<ul>', '</ul>')
            ->facebook();

This will output the following html.

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://jorenvanhocht.be" class="social-button " id=""><span class="fa fa-facebook-official"></span></a></li>
</ul>

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email jorenvh@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Joren Van Hocht
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.