Dynamic Links¶

You can create short Dynamic Links with the Firebase Admin SDK for PHP. Dynamic Links can be

a long Dynamic Link
an array containing Dynamic Link parameters
an action created with builder methods

and will return a URL like https://example.page.link/wXYZ.

Note

Short Dynamic Links created via the REST API or this SDK do not show up in the Firebase console. Such Dynamic Links are intended for user-to-user sharing. For marketing use cases, continue to create your links directly through the Dynamic Links page of the Firebase console.

Before you start, please read about Dynamic Links in the official documentation:

Getting started¶

In the Firebase console, open the Dynamic Links section.
If you have not already accepted the terms of service and set a domain for your Dynamic Links, do so when prompted.
If you already have a Dynamic Links domain, take note of it. You need to provide a Dynamic Links Domain when you programmatically create Dynamic Links.

Initializing the Dynamic Links component¶

$dynamicLinksDomain = 'https://example.page.link';
$dynamicLinks = $factory->createDynamicLinksService($dynamicLinksDomain);

Create a Dynamic Link¶

You can create a Dynamic Link by using one of the methods below. Each method will return an instance of Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink.

use use Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\CreateDynamicLink\FailedToCreateDynamicLink;

$url = 'https://www.example.com/some/path';

try {
    $link = $dynamicLinks->createUnguessableLink($url);
    $link = $dynamicLinks->createDynamicLink($url, CreateDynamicLink::WITH_UNGUESSABLE_SUFFIX);

    $link = $dynamicLinks->createShortLink($url);
    $link = $dynamicLinks->createDynamicLink($url, CreateDynamicLink::WITH_SHORT_SUFFIX);
} catch (FailedToCreateDynamicLink $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(); exit;
}

If createDynamicLink() is called without a second parameter, the Dynamic Link is created with an unguessable suffix.

Unguessable suffixes have a length of 17 characters, short suffixes a length of 4 characters. You can learn more about the length of Dynamic Links in the official documentation.

The returned object will be an instance of Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink with the following accessors:

$link->uri();         // Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface
$link->previewUri();  // Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface
$link->domain();      // string
$link->suffix();      // string
$link->hasWarnings(); // bool
$link->warnings();    // array

$uriString = (string) $link;

Create a short link from a long link¶

If you have a manually constructed link, you can convert it to a short link:

use Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\ShortenLongDynamicLink\FailedToShortenLongDynamicLink;

$longLink = 'https://example.page.link?link=https://example.com/some/path';

try {
    $link = $dynamicLinks->shortenLongDynamicLink($longLink);
    $link = $dynamicLinks->shortenLongDynamicLink($longLink, ShortenLongDynamicLink::WITH_UNGUESSABLE_SUFFIX);
    $link = $dynamicLinks->shortenLongDynamicLink($longLink, ShortenLongDynamicLink::WITH_SHORT_SUFFIX);
} catch (FailedToShortenLongDynamicLink $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(); exit;
}

If shortenLongDynamicLink() is called without a second parameter, the Dynamic Link is created with an unguessable suffix.

Get link statistics¶

You can use this REST API to get analytics data for each of your short Dynamic Links, whether created in the console or programmatically.

Note

These statistics might not include events that have been logged within the last 36 hours.

use Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\GetStatisticsForDynamicLink\FailedToGetStatisticsForDynamicLink;

try {
    $stats = $dynamicLinks->getStatistics('https://example.page.link/wXYZ');
    $stats = $dynamicLinks->getStatistics('https://example.page.link/wXYZ', 14); // duration in days
} catch (FailedToGetStatisticsForDynamicLink $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(); exit;
}

If getStatistics() is called without a second parameter, stats will include the statistics of the past 7 days.

The returned object will be an instance of Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\DynamicLinkStatistics, which currently only includes event statistics. You can access the raw returned data with $stats->rawData().

Event Statistics¶

Firebase Dynamic Links tracks the number of times each of your short Dynamic Links have been clicked, as well as the number of times a click resulted in a redirect, app install, app first-open, or app re-open, including the platform on which that event occurred.

Each of the following methods returns a (filtered) instance of Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\EventStatistics which supports any combination of filters and is countable with count() or ->count() as shown below:

$eventStats = $stats->eventStatistics();

$allClicks = $eventStats->clicks();
$allRedirects = $eventStats->redirects();
$allAppInstalls = $eventStats->appInstalls();
$allAppFirstOpens = $eventStats->appFirstOpens();
$allAppReOpens = $eventStats->appReOpens();

$allAndroidEvents = $eventStats->onAndroid();
$allDesktopEvents = $eventStats->onDesktop();
$allIOSEvents = $eventStats->onIOS();

$clicksOnDesktop = $eventStats->clicks()->onDesktop();
$appInstallsOnAndroid = $eventStats->onAndroid()->appInstalls();
$appReOpensOnIOS = $eventStats->appReOpens()->onIOS();

$totalAmountOfClicks = count($eventStats->clicks());
$totalAmountOfAppFirstOpensOnAndroid = $eventStats->appFirstOpens()->onAndroid()->count();

$custom = $eventStats->filter(function (array $eventGroup) {
    return $eventGroup['platform'] === 'CUSTOM_PLATFORM_THAT_THE_SDK_DOES_NOT_KNOW_YET';
});

Advanced usage¶

Using actions¶

You can fully customize the creation of Dynamic Links by building up a Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\CreateDynamicLink action. The following code shows all available building components:

use Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\CreateDynamicLink;

$action = CreateDynamicLink::forUrl($url)
    ->withDynamicLinkDomain('https://example.page.link')
    ->withUnguessableSuffix() // default
    // or
    ->withShortSuffix()
    ->withAnalyticsInfo(
        AnalyticsInfo::new()
            ->withGooglePlayAnalyticsInfo(
                GooglePlayAnalytics::new()
                    ->withGclid('gclid')
                    ->withUtmCampaign('utmCampaign')
                    ->withUtmContent('utmContent')
                    ->withUtmMedium('utmMedium')
                    ->withUtmSource('utmSource')
                    ->withUtmTerm('utmTerm')
            )
            ->withItunesConnectAnalytics(
                ITunesConnectAnalytics::new()
                    ->withAffiliateToken('affiliateToken')
                    ->withCampaignToken('campaignToken')
                    ->withMediaType('8')
                    ->withProviderToken('providerToken')
            )
    )
    ->withNavigationInfo(
        NavigationInfo::new()
            ->withoutForcedRedirect() // default
            // or
            ->withForcedRedirect()
    )
    ->withIOSInfo(
        IOSInfo::new()
            ->withAppStoreId('appStoreId')
            ->withBundleId('bundleId')
            ->withCustomScheme('customScheme')
            ->withFallbackLink('https://fallback.example.com')
            ->withIPadBundleId('iPadBundleId')
            ->withIPadFallbackLink('https://ipad-fallback.example.com')
    )
    ->withAndroidInfo(
        AndroidInfo::new()
            ->withFallbackLink('https://fallback.example.com')
            ->withPackageName('packageName')
            ->withMinPackageVersionCode('minPackageVersionCode')
    )
    ->withSocialMetaTagInfo(
        SocialMetaTagInfo::new()
            ->withDescription('Social Meta Tag description')
            ->withTitle('Social Meta Tag title')
            ->withImageLink('https://example.com/image.jpg')
    );

$link = $dynamicLinks->createDynamicLink($action);

Using parameter arrays¶

If you prefer using a parameter array to configure a Dynamic Link, or if this SDK doesn’t yet have support for a given new option, you can pass an array to the createDynamicLink() method. As the parameters will not be processed or validated by the SDK, you have to make sure that the parameter structure matches the one described in the API Reference Documentation

use use Kreait\Firebase\DynamicLink\CreateDynamicLink\FailedToCreateDynamicLink;

$parameters = [
    'dynamicLinkInfo' => [
        'domainUriPrefix' => 'https://example.page.link',
        'link' => 'https://example.com/some/path',
    ],
    'suffix' => ['option' => 'SHORT'],
];

try {
    $link = $dynamicLinks->createDynamicLink($parameters);
} catch (FailedToCreateDynamicLink $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(); exit;
}