Laravel Link Shortener

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Install the Package
  • Publish the Config and Migrations
  • Migrate the Database
• Generate the Link
• Use the link
• Testing
• License

Overview

A Laravel package that can be used for adding shortened URLs to your existing web app.

Installation

Requirements

The package has been developed and tested to work with the following minimum requirements:

• PHP >=8.1
• Laravel >=9.0

Install the Package

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require orlovtech/short-link

Publish the Config and Migrations

You can then publish the package's config file and database migrations by using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OrlovTech\ShortLink\Providers\ShortLinkServiceProvider"

at this config file you can change the prefix you want to use. By default it's a /short/.

Migrate the Database

This package contains one migration that add a new table to the database: short_links. To run this migration, simply run the following command:

php artisan migrate

Generate the Link

The fastest way to generate new link is to use the facade OrlovTech\ShortLink\Facades\ShortLink like this:

ShortLink::generate('https://yourlink.com');

This method will return you short version of your link.

Method generate also has the second parameter singleUse as an option. With this parameter you can specify that your link should be deleted after it was used for the first time.

So the full view might be:

ShortLink::generate(
    'https://yourlink.com',
    singleUse: true,
);

To show ready link use param default_short_url like so:

$link = ShortLink::generate('https://yourlink.com');

echo config('app.url') . $link->default_short_url;

Use the link

When you have ready link you can use the endpoint https://yourdomain.com/short/628ac418-865a

where short is the prefix from config file

Testing

To run the package's unit tests, run the following command:

vendor/bin/phpunit

License

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