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Socials Helpers

Helper package used for the validation of social links.

Requirements

This project requires PHP 8.2 or higher with the mbstring extension installed.

Installation

Install via [composer], simply run:

composer require dealroom/socials-helpers

Usage

The Factory class provides a simple wrapper for the validation functionality, for example, to get normalized URL:

use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Factory;
use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Normalizers\TwitterNormalizer;

$data = Factory::parseUrl('http://twitter.com/Dealroom', [TwitterNormalizer::getPlatform()])->getNormalizedUrl();

echo $data;

// "https://twitter.com/dealroom"

Or if you want to extract social network ID (handle):

use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Factory;
use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Normalizers\TwitterNormalizer;

$data = Factory::parseUrl('https://twitter.com/dealroom', [TwitterNormalizer::getPlatform()])->getId();

echo $data;

// "dealroom"

Supported Platforms

The following platforms are supported by default:

• Apple Music
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• YouTube
• TikTok
• SoundCloud
• X
• Spotify

Registering new platforms

To register a new normalizer, you need to create a new class that implements the NormalizerInterface interface (for example, by extending the AbstractNormalizer class). After that, you need to register the new normalizer in the Factory class.

use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Normalizers\AbstractNormalizer;
use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Normalizers\Factory;
use Dealroom\SocialsHelpers\Factory;

class CustomNormalizer extends AbstractNormalizer
{
    // Implement the interface methods
}

Factory::addNormalizer(CustomNormalizer::class);

$data = Factory::parseUrl('https://custom.com/Dealroom', [CustomNormalizer::getPlatform()])->getNormalizedUrl();

Testing

PHPUnit is used for testing, run:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

Releases and CI/CD

The release is done automatically using GitHub Actions on every push to the main branch. After the release is done, a new tag is created and pushed to GitHub, which triggers a new release in packagist.