Its a simple library to generate link preview from html content. Its find all links in html content and generate preview for each link targeted with class name generated-previews. It will replace anchor tag with content of preview.php file. You can customize preview.php file to change preview design.
the project built by an intern at workouse (@bykclk), its not for production use.
- Generate link preview from html content
- Customize preview design
- Easy to use
composer require workouse/link-preview-generator<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Workouse\LinkPreviewGenerator\LinkPreviewGenerator;
$p_generator = LinkPreviewGenerator::create();
$html = <<<'HTML'
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<a href="https://github.com/workouse/link-preview-generator" class="generated-previews">link-preview-generator</a>
</body>
</html>
HTML;
echo $p_generator->generatePreview($html);- Create your preview.php file in your project root directory
<div style="border: 1px solid blue">
<img height="100" width="100" src="<?= $tag['og_image'] ? $tag['og_image'] : $tag['image'] ?>"/>
<h1><?= $tag['og_title'] ? $tag['og_title'] : $tag['title'] ?></h1>
<p><?= $tag['og_description'] ? $tag['og_description'] : $tag['description'] ?></p>
<a href="<?= $tag['og_url'] ?>">Visit page</a>
</div>-
$tagvariable will be passed your template file with following keystitledescriptionimageurlog_titleog_descriptionog_imageog_url
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Use
generatePreviewmethod with second argument as path of your preview.php file
<?php
//you can use your template engine, i will use PhpEngine in here
$filesystemLoader = new FilesystemLoader(__DIR__ . '/templates/%name%');
$templating = new PhpEngine(new TemplateNameParser(), $filesystemLoader);
$p_generator = LinkPreviewGenerator::create($templating,'new_preview.php');//it will be placed inside templates folder
$html = ...
echo $p_generator->generatePreview($html);