URL Shortener

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require marjose/UrlShortener

You can publish and run the migrations with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Marjose\UrlShortener\UrlShortenerServiceProvider" --tag="UrlShortener-migrations"
php artisan migrate

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Marjose\UrlShortener\UrlShortenerServiceProvider" --tag="UrlShortener-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'length' => 6, // Length of the string for shortening the URL
    'expiration' => 120, // minutes, 0 for no expiration
];

Usage

Generating the URL by using the default setting from the Config file.

use Marjose\UrlShortener\Facades\UrlShortener;
$response = UrlShortener::url('https://xxxx.xx/xxxx')->generate();

Generating the URL by adding expiration to the link.

use Marjose\UrlShortener\Facades\UrlShortener;
$response = UrlShortener::url('https://xxxx.xx/xxxx')->setExpiration(15)->generate();

Generating the URL by overriding the default setting from the Config file.

use Marjose\UrlShortener\Facades\UrlShortener;
$response = UrlShortener::url('https://xxxx.xx/xxxx')->setLength(5)->setExpiration(15)->generate();

Validate if the shorted URL is expired or not

use Marjose\UrlShortener\Facades\UrlShortener;
$response = UrlShortener::url('https://xxxx.xx/xxxx')->isExpired();

// This will return boolean or an exception if the supplied url is not found in the database

In your web.php route you can add a new route similar to this, so that you can capture and redirect to the original link once the like is validated by your controller.

Route::get('s/{url_key}',[YourControllerHere::class, 'YourControllerMethod']);

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• MarJose

License

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