The WebLink Component

Version: 4.1
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The WebLink Component

The WebLink component provides tools to manage the Link HTTP header needed for Web Linking when using HTTP/2 Server Push as well as Resource Hints.

Installation

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$ composer require symfony/web-link

Alternatively, you can clone the https://github.com/symfony/web-link repository.

Note

If you install this component outside of a Symfony application, you must require the vendor/autoload.php file in your code to enable the class autoloading mechanism provided by Composer. Read this article for more details.

Usage

The following example shows the component in action:

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use Fig\Link\GenericLinkProvider;
use Fig\Link\Link;
use Symfony\Component\WebLink\HttpHeaderSerializer;

$linkProvider = (new GenericLinkProvider())
    ->withLink(new Link('preload', '/bootstrap.min.css'));

header('Link: '.(new HttpHeaderSerializer())->serialize($linkProvider->getLinks()));

echo 'Hello';

Read the full WebLink documentation to learn about all the features of the component and its integration with the Symfony framework.

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