Laravel Shorte.st

Installation

First, pull in the package through Composer.

composer require appsketch/shortest

And then, if using Laravel 5.1, include the service provider within app/config/app.php.

'providers' => [
    Appsketch\Shortest\Providers\ShortestServiceProvider::class,
]

if using Laravel 5. include this service provider.

'providers' => [
    "Appsketch\Shortest\Providers\ShortestServiceProvider",
]

The alias will automatically set.

Publish the config file to the config folder with the following command. php artisan vendor:publish.

Fill out the config file.

Within, for example the routes.php add this.

Route::get('/shortest', function()
{
    // this will for example echo http://sh.st/v0v8m.
    echo Shortest::link("http://www.google.com/");
});