Product URL-Shortener and Share-Link Extension for Magento 2

In the dynamic realm of online commerce, ensuring your product links are optimized holds paramount importance for increasing engagement and enhancing conversion rates. Recognizing the value of clear and user-friendly URLs, we are excited to present our cutting-edge Product URL Shortener and Share Link service.

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User Guide

We highly recommend gathering all the below information, before starting the installation.

Prerequisites

Make sure the cron is configured and running. You can find the details from here: Configure and run cron

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Installation Procedure

Type 1: Zip file

• Download your extension package from the Download page after purchasing the extension.

• Open the extension ZIP file you downloaded and extract it to a directory on your computer using a tool like WinRar, WinZIP or similar.

• Upload the extracted files to the app/code/Extendware directory in your Magento installation, maintaining the folder structure. If updating, overwrite the existing files.

• Connect via SSH and run the following commands (make sure to run them as the user who owns the Magento files!

  php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_Core
  
  php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_Shortlink
  
  php bin/magento setup:upgrade
  
  php bin/magento setup:di:compile
  
  php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
  
  

Type 2: Via Composer (recommended)

• You can freely install, update, and remove Magento 2 extensions using Composer.

• Please request your private access first via Support Form.

• Add the custom repository to the composer.json

  composer config repositories.private-packagist composer https://extendware.repo.packagist.com/your-company-name/
  

• Setup authentication

  composer config --auth http-basic.extendware.repo.packagist.com token YOUR-PRIVATE-TOKEN
  

• Install the module

  composer require extendware/module-shortlink
  

• run the following commands

  php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_Core
  
  php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_Shortlink
  
  php bin/magento setup:upgrade
  
  php bin/magento setup:di:compile
  
  php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
  

Configuration

To configure the extension you need to go to Dashboard → Stores → Configuration → Extendware Menu**.

Configuration Overview

Module Enable - Select Yes to enable the module.

Select Domain Option - Select your preferred method of application integration: using the existing domain or via a sub-domain.

Select Website for Short Link - If you select “Use with Sub-domain,” please pick the website to apply for short links.

Choose Target Website for Redirection - Select the website to which short links should redirect.

Cron setting > Enable - This setting is configured to automatically generate product codes.

Note: If you enable the cron setting this will automatically generate the code for all the products.

Generate Code From Product Page

1. Generate code using single product mode:

To obtain the code, select Generate Code For Shortlink from the top menu.

Once you click the button, you’ll see a code generated in the designated field.

2. Generate code using mass update from backend grid:

• Same like single product admin can select multiple products and generate code by selecting store.

• Additional thing is message queue system which allow code generation to work in backgroud and code generation will be done in batches of 20 and run along with cron please check notes section for more details

View ShortLink Report

You can access all the products that have been viewed through shortlinks and are currently in use by navigating to Admin Panel → Extendware Menu → ShortLink → Short Link Report.

Notes

• To do code generation for the link with command line please make sure cron is ruuning fine in your magento instance

• To check it you can run

    crontab -l
  

• Also run cron manually you can goto root of magento installation and run

    php bin/magento cron:run
  

• Also there is a manual way to run generation code without running cron by using

    bin/magento queue:consumers:start generateshortcode.shortlink --max-messages=10000
  

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented here.

[1.0.2]

Added

• Added configurable website settings for shortlink requests and target website redirection.

[1.0.1]

Fixed

• Fix: Deprecation of dynamic property Interceptor::$remoteAddress

[1.0.0]

Added

• First release