Laravel Bitly Package

A laravel package for generating Bitly short URLs.

For more information see Bitly

Requirements

Laravel 5.1 or later

Installation

Installation is a quick 3 step process:

1. Download laravel-bitly using composer
2. Enable the package in app.php
3. Configure your Bitly credentials
4. (Optional) Configure the package facade

Step 1: Download laravel-bitly using composer

Add shivella/laravel-bitly by running the command:

composer require shivella/laravel-bitly

Step 2: Enable the package in app.php

Register the Service in: config/app.php

Shivella\Bitly\BitlyServiceProvider::class,

Step 3: Configure Bitly credentials

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Shivella\Bitly\BitlyServiceProvider"

Add this in you .env file

BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_secret_bitly_access_token

Step 4 (Optional): Configure the package facade

Register the Bitly Facade in: config/app.php

<?php

return [
    'aliases' => [

        'App' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
        'Artisan' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
        'Auth' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
        // ...
        'Bitly' => Shivella\Bitly\Facade\Bitly::class,
    ],
    // ...
];

Usage

<?php

$url = app('bitly')->getUrl('https://www.google.com/'); // http://bit.ly/nHcn3

Or if you want to use facade, add this in your class after namespace declaration:

<?php

use Bitly;

Then you can use it directly by calling Bitly:: like:

<?php

$url = Bitly::getUrl('https://www.google.com/'); // http://bit.ly/nHcn3

Testing

In your unit tests you may use BitlyClientFake class instead of regular client. It will create a fake short URLs using hashing without calling an external REST API, which will speed up your unit tests. Fake might be setup via DI at your \Tests\TestCase::createApplication() implementation:

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel;
use Shivella\Bitly\Testing\BitlyClientFake;

trait CreatesApplication
{
    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    public function createApplication()
    {
        $app = require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

        $app->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();

        // swap Bitly client by a fake
        $app->singleton('bitly', function () {
            return new BitlyClientFake();
        });

        return $app;
    }
}

As an alternative you may use \Shivella\Bitly\Facade\Bitly::fake() method to swap regular client by a fake.