Merge pull request #20 from mattgorle/master

Remove need to call glide_url->url() to get the URL

Author: mattgorle

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Types of changes
 * **Fixed** for any bug fixes.
 * **Security** in case of vulnerabilities.
 
+## 0.4 - 2021-09-09
+### Changed
+* Allow glide_url result to be printed directly
+
 ## 0.2.2 - 2021-06-11
 ### Fixed
 * fix for unit tests

README.md

@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ An example using a preset as a base and then making a few alterations using the
 
 ```php
 glide_url($pathToYourImageFile)->preset('medium')->filter('sepia')->url();
+
+// You can also cast the FluentUrlBuilder to a string:
+
+$url = (string)glide_url($pathToYourImageFile)->preset('medium')->filter('sepia'); 
+
+// Or print it:
+
+print glide_url($pathToYourImageFile)->preset('medium')->filter('sepia');
+
+// Or use it directly in your blade templates:
+
+{{ glide_url($pathToYourImageFile)->preset('medium')->filter('sepia') }}
 ```
 
 There are also predefined constants if you prefer using those rather than strings, e.g:

composer.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "description": "Out of the box solution for Glide PHP for Laravel",
     "type": "library",
     "require": {
-        "ampedweb/glide-url-helper": "^0.1",
+        "ampedweb/glide-url-helper": "~0.1",
         "league/glide-laravel": "^1.0",
         "php": "^7.3|~8",
         "phploc/phploc": "^7.0"