How to Add social share button in Laravel 8 with Laravel Share
Laravel Share package lets you dynamically generate social share buttons from popular social networks to increase social media engagement.
These allow website visitors to easily share the content with their social media connections and networks.
In this tutorial, I show how you can add social share links in your Laravel 8 project using Laravel Share package.
1. Install Package
Install the package using composer –
composer require jorenvanhocht/laravel-share
2. Update app.php
- Open
config/app.php
file. - Add the following
Jorenvh\Share\Providers\ShareServiceProvider::class
in'providers'
–
'providers' => [
....
....
....
Jorenvh\Share\Providers\ShareServiceProvider::class,
];
- Add the following
'Share' => Jorenvh\Share\ShareFacade::class
in'aliases'
–
'aliases' => [
....
....
....
'Share' => Jorenvh\Share\ShareFacade::class,
];
3. Publish package
Run the command –
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jorenvh\Share\Providers\ShareServiceProvider"
4. Route
- Open
routes/web.php
file. - Create a route –
- / – Load index view.
Completed Code
<?php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\PageController;
Route::get('/', [PageController::class, 'index']);
5. Controller
- Create
PageController
Controller.
php artisan make:controller PageController
- Open
app/Http/Controllers/PageController.php
file. - Create 1 method –
index() – Create a share link using Share::page()
and assign to $shareButtons1
. Similarly, create 2 more links and assign to variables.
Load index
view and pass $shareButtons1
, $shareButtons2
, and $shareButtons3
.
Completed Code
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class PageController extends Controller
{
public function index(){
// Share button 1
$shareButtons1 = \Share::page(
'https://makitweb.com/datatables-ajax-pagination-with-search-and-sort-in-laravel-8/'
)
->facebook()
->twitter()
->linkedin()
->telegram()
->whatsapp()
->reddit();
// Share button 2
$shareButtons2 = \Share::page(
'https://makitweb.com/how-to-make-autocomplete-search-using-jquery-ui-in-laravel-8/'
)
->facebook()
->twitter()
->linkedin()
->telegram();
// Share button 3
$shareButtons3 = \Share::page(
'https://makitweb.com/how-to-upload-multiple-files-with-vue-js-and-php/'
)
->facebook()
->twitter()
->linkedin()
->telegram()
->whatsapp()
->reddit();
// Load index view
return view('index')
->with('shareButtons1',$shareButtons1 )
->with('shareButtons2',$shareButtons2 )
->with('shareButtons3',$shareButtons3 );
}
}
6. View
Createindex.blade.php
file in resources/views/
folder.
Include Bootstrap, font-awesome CSS, jQuery, and js/share.js. –
<!-- CSS -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css"/>
<!-- jQuery -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Share JS -->
<script src="{{ asset('js/share.js') }}"></script>
Added CSS to customize social share links.
Display social share links using –
{!! $shareButtons1 !!}
Similarly, display other 2 – {!! $shareButtons2 !!}, and {!! $shareButtons3 !!}.
Completed Code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Add social share button in Laravel 8 with Laravel Share</title>
<!-- Meta -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<!-- CSS -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.1/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css"/>
<!-- jQuery -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Share JS -->
<script src="{{ asset('js/share.js') }}"></script>
<style>
#social-links ul{
padding-left: 0;
}
#social-links ul li {
display: inline-block;
}
#social-links ul li a {
padding: 6px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 5px;
margin: 1px;
font-size: 25px;
}
#social-links .fa-facebook{
color: #0d6efd;
}
#social-links .fa-twitter{
color: deepskyblue;
}
#social-links .fa-linkedin{
color: #0e76a8;
}
#social-links .fa-whatsapp{
color: #25D366
}
#social-links .fa-reddit{
color: #FF4500;;
}
#social-links .fa-telegram{
color: #0088cc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class='container'>
<!-- Post 1 -->
<div class='row mt-5'>
<h2>Datatables AJAX pagination with Search and Sort in Laravel 8</h2>
<p>With pagination, it is easier to display a huge list of data on the page.</p>
<p>You can create pagination with and without AJAX.</p>
<p>There are many jQuery plugins are available for adding pagination. One of them is DataTables.</p>
<p>In this tutorial, I show how you can add Datatables AJAX pagination without the Laravel package in Laravel 8.</p>
<!-- Social Share buttons 1 -->
<div class="social-btn-sp">
{!! $shareButtons1 !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Post 2 -->
<div class='row mt-5'>
<h2>How to make Autocomplete search using jQuery UI in Laravel 8</h2>
<p>jQuery UI has different types of widgets available, one of them is autocomplete.</p>
<p>Data is loaded according to the input after initialize autocomplete on a textbox. User can select an option from the suggestion list.</p>
<p>In this tutorial, I show how you can make autocomplete search using jQuery UI in Laravel 8.</p>
<!-- Social Share buttons 2 -->
<div class="social-btn-sp">
{!! $shareButtons2 !!}
</div>
</div>
<!-- Post 3 -->
<div class='row mt-5 mb-5'>
<h2>How to upload multiple files with Vue.js and PHP</h2>
<p>Instead of adding multiple file elements, you can use a single file element for allowing the user to upload more than one file.</p>
<p>Using the FormData object to pass the selected files to the PHP for upload.</p>
<p>In this tutorial, I show how you can upload multiple files using Vue.js and PHP.</p>
<!-- Social Share buttons 3 -->
<div class="social-btn-sp">
{!! $shareButtons3 !!}
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
7. Demo
8. Conclusion
In the example, I fixed the links but you can set them dynamically.
Customize the design using CSS and the number of social icons visible using the controller.
Using the Laravel Share package you can share links to –
- Facebook,
- Twitter,
- LinkedIn,
- WhatsApp,
- Reddit, and
- Telegram
Learn more about this from here.
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