Larashurl

Short urls for Laravel apps, dashboard included.

Work In Progress

This package is not yet ready for production applications. There are a number of v1 features missing along with comprehensive tests. A v1.0.0 release will signal a production ready state.

Features

• Short urls can either respond with a redirect response or a customizable view. The customizable view would allow one to perform browser-based actions before performing a client side redirect. Ex: embed GA/FB/etc tracker javascript into the page or show a custom message..
• Short urls have a configurable destination url.
• Short urls have a configurable url key.
• Short urls can use a custom seed for the key generator.
• Short urls can use a custom key generator.
• Short urls can use a custom user agent parser.
• Short urls have an optional feature to attempt visitor identification (relating a short url visit back to a particular user of your system) based on multiple resolution options - authentication or custom query params.
• Short urls have a configurable redirect status code.
• Short urls can be attached to a campaign to group similar links together and control bulk settings.
• Short urls can have various options on an individual link basis:
  • Max number of uses (including single use).
  • Activation and deactivation datetime.
  • Tracking visits.
    • Recording user (when authenticated)
    • Visitor type (human, bot, etc)
    • Ip address
    • OS
    • OS version
    • Browser
    • Browser version
    • Referer url
    • Device type
    • Full user agent string
  • Forwarding query params
    • (Future feature) Ability to apply a certain set of query params to all redirections (like setting utm_campaign/utm_source/etc automatically).
  • Forcing https for the destination url
  • All options have a configurable default setting but can be overridden for each short url.
• Short url routes can have a custom prefix or a fully-customized route (with ability to turn off default route).
• Custom middleware for the route.
• Custom database connections for each model.
• Model factories
• Visit analytics
  • Charts with customizable timespan
• An admin UI to easily manage short urls, campaigns, and review visit analytics.
• API to CRUD short urls and visits (so someone could deploy this as a solo app and interact with it from a separate service)

Future Features (v2):

• Pixel tracking
• Public stats
• Short url tagging
• Short url descriptions
• QR codes
• Smart urls (redirect to multiple urls based on device, browser, location, etc)
• Webhooks

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require steven-fox/laravel-short-urls

You can publish and run the migrations with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-short-urls-migrations"
php artisan migrate

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-short-urls-config"

Optionally, you can publish the views using

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-short-urls-views"

Usage

Testing

composer test

Changelog

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

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Steven Fox
• All Contributors

License

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