In this Laravel 8 Add Share Social Media Button Example tutorial I will show you how to add social media share button in your laravel application. In this tutorial you will learn to add social media share buttons in your laravel project. In this article I will share example to add social media share button in your laravel application.

Laravel 8 Add Share Social Media Button Example

In this step by step tutorial I will demonstrate you with example how to add social media share buttons in laravel application. Please follow instruction given below:

• Step 1 – Install Laravel 8 App
• Step 2 – Connecting App to Database
• Step 3 – Install Social Media Button Package
• Step 4 – Add Route
• Step 5 – Generate Controller by Command
• Step 6 – Create Blade View
• Step 7 – Run Development Server
• Step 8 – Test This App

Step 1 – Install Laravel 8 App

First of all we need to create a fresh laravel project, download and install Laravel 8 using the below command

Step 2 – Connecting App to Database

Now, lets create a MySQL database and connect it with laravel application. After creating database we need to set database credential in application’s .env file.

Step 3 – Install Social Media Button Package

In this step, we will install Social Media Button Package via the composer dependency manager. Use the following command to install Social Media Button Package.

After Installing Image intervention package, we need to add service provider and alias in config/app.php file as following.

config/app.php

Now run the following command to publish config file:

Step 4 – Add Route

After this, we need to define routes in “routes/web.php” file. Lets open “routes/web.php” file and add the following routes in it.

routes/web.php

Step 5 – Generate Controller by Command

Now, lets create a controller named ShareSocialController using command given below –

Once the above command executed, it will create a controller file ShareSocialController.php in app/Http/Controllers/ directory. Open the ShareSocialController.php file and put the following code in it.

app/Http/Controllers/ShareSocialController.php