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A Laravel package that makes it easy to generate sharing URLs for popular social networks. Share your content on X (Twitter), Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Telegram, Email, Reddit, Bluesky, and Mastodon with just a few lines of code.

Features

• 🚀 Generate sharing URLs for 10+ social networks
• 📱 Support for X, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Telegram, Email, Reddit, Bluesky, and Mastodon
• 🎯 Simple and fluent API
• 🔧 Easy to integrate with your models
• ⚙️ Configurable (Facebook App ID support)
• ✅ Fully tested
• 🐘 PHP 8.1+ compatible
• 🎗️ Laravel 10, 11, and 12 support

Installation

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require escuelait/laravel-social-shareable

Configuration

Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Escuelait\SocialShareable\SocialShareableServiceProvider"

Or, if you only want to publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=social-shareable-config

Update your .env file with optional Facebook App ID:

FACEBOOK_APP_ID=your_facebook_app_id_here

Usage

Using the Trait

Add the SocialShareable trait to your model:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Escuelait\SocialShareable\SocialShareable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use SocialShareable;

    public $title = 'Check out this amazing post!';
    public $url = 'https://example.com/posts/1';
}

Generating Share URLs

Generate share URLs for any social network:

$post = Post::first();

// Generate share URL for X (Twitter)
$xUrl = $post->getShareUrl('x');

// Generate share URL for Facebook
$facebookUrl = $post->getShareUrl('facebook');

// Generate share URL for WhatsApp
$whatsappUrl = $post->getShareUrl('whatsapp');

// And more...
$linkedinUrl = $post->getShareUrl('linkedin');
$pinterestUrl = $post->getShareUrl('pinterest');
$telegramUrl = $post->getShareUrl('telegram');
$redditUrl = $post->getShareUrl('reddit');
$blueskyUrl = $post->getShareUrl('bluesky');
$mastodonUrl = $post->getShareUrl('mastodon');
$emailUrl = $post->getShareUrl('email');

Custom Parameters

Pass custom parameters to override defaults:

$post = Post::first();

// Custom text for X with hashtags
$xUrl = $post->getShareUrl('x', [
    'text' => 'Custom message with #hashtags',
]);

// Custom URL for Facebook
$facebookUrl = $post->getShareUrl('facebook', [
    'u' => 'https://custom-url.com',
]);

// Custom quote for LinkedIn
$linkedinUrl = $post->getShareUrl('linkedin', [
    'title' => 'Custom title for LinkedIn',
]);

Resolving Title and URL

The trait looks for $title and $url properties on your model. You can customize this by overriding the resolution methods:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Escuelait\SocialShareable\SocialShareable;

class Article extends Model
{
    use SocialShareable;

    protected function resolveShareUrl(): string
    {
        return route('articles.show', $this->slug);
    }

    protected function resolveShareTitle(): string
    {
        return $this->headline ?? $this->title;
    }
}

Supported Social Networks

The package supports the following social networks:

Using the Generator Directly

You can also use the SocialShareableGenerator class directly without a model:

use Escuelait\SocialShareable\SocialShareableGenerator;

$generator = SocialShareableGenerator::for(
    'https://example.com',
    'Check this out!'
);

$xUrl = $generator->x();
$facebookUrl = $generator->facebook();
$whatsappUrl = $generator->whatsapp();

View Components (Optional)

You can create Blade components to generate share buttons:

<!-- resources/views/components/share-buttons.blade.php -->
<div class="share-buttons">
    <a href="{{ $post->getShareUrl('x') }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Share on X
    </a>
    <a href="{{ $post->getShareUrl('facebook') }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Share on Facebook
    </a>
    <a href="{{ $post->getShareUrl('whatsapp') }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Share on WhatsApp
    </a>
    <a href="{{ $post->getShareUrl('linkedin') }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
        Share on LinkedIn
    </a>
</div>

Testing

Run the test suite:

composer test

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 9, 10, 11, or 12
• illuminate/support package

Changelog

See the CHANGELOG for recent changes.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Author

Miguel Angel Alvarez

• Email: miguel@escuela.it
• Website: escuela.it

Credits

Created by EscuelaIT