laravel-meta-tags maintained by kekoapp
Laravel Meta Tags
With this package you can manage header Meta and OG Tags from Laravel controllers. Kept up to date for the latest Laravel versions.
While there is a few forks of this original package this is the only one kept updated for Laravel 5.4!
Latest package version: 5.4.3
Current supported Laravel version: 5.4.*
Installation
From the command line run
$ composer require Cookizza/laravel-meta-tags
Once Meta Tags is installed you need to register the service provider with the application. Open up config/app.php and find the providers key.
'providers' => array(
Cookizza\LaravelMetaTags\MetaTagsServiceProvider::class,
)
Meta Tags also ships with a facade which provides the static syntax for creating collections. You can register the facade in the aliases key of your config/app.php file.
'aliases' => array(
'MetaTag' => Cookizza\LaravelMetaTags\Facades\MetaTag::class,
)
Publish the configurations
Run this on the command line from the root of your project:
$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cookizza\LaravelMetaTags\MetaTagsServiceProvider"
A configuration file will be publish to config/meta-tags.php.
Twitter Cards and OpenGraph
Various settings for these options can be found in the config/meta-tags.php file.
Twitter Cards
{!! MetaTag::twitterCard() !!}
OpenGraph
{!! MetaTag::openGraph() !!}
Examples
app/Http/Controllers/Controller.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesCommands;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
use MetaTag;
abstract class Controller extends BaseController
{
use DispatchesCommands, ValidatesRequests;
public function __construct()
{
// Defaults
MetaTag::set('description', 'Blog Wes Anderson bicycle rights, occupy Shoreditch gentrify keffiyeh.');
MetaTag::set('image', asset('images/default-share-image.png'));
}
}
app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use MetaTag;
class HomeController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
// Section description
MetaTag::set('title', 'You are at home');
MetaTag::set('description', 'This is my home. Enjoy!');
return view('index');
}
public function detail()
{
// Section description
MetaTag::set('title', 'This is a detail page');
MetaTag::set('description', 'All about this detail page');
MetaTag::set('image', asset('images/detail-logo.png'));
return view('detail');
}
public function private()
{
// Section description
MetaTag::set('title', 'Private Area');
MetaTag::set('description', 'You shall not pass!');
MetaTag::set('image', asset('images/locked-logo.png'));
return view('private');
}
}
resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>{{ MetaTag::get('title') }}</title>
{!! MetaTag::tag('description') !!}
{!! MetaTag::tag('image') !!}
{!! MetaTag::openGraph() !!}
{!! MetaTag::twitterCard() !!}
{{--Set default share picture after custom section pictures--}}
{!! MetaTag::tag('image', asset('images/default-logo.png')) !!}
</head>
<body>
@yield('content')
</body>
</html>