Sharp Ohdear Broken Links Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Build vs. buy for link health: If your team already pays for Oh Dear and runs Sharp admin panels, this package turns that subscription into an in-admin broken-link workflow instead of building a custom crawler or reporting UI.
• Roadmap prioritization: Gives product and content ops a visible queue of broken links, helping prioritize content QA, SEO hygiene, and post-migration link cleanup.
• Operational ownership: Supports assigning broken-link triage to content, marketing, or engineering owners inside the admin tool they already use.
• Release risk: v2.6 is a compatibility and maintenance release—PHP 8.5 support plus basic testing—with no user-facing feature change, so it should not alter roadmap commitments.
• Adoption decision: Reasonable for Sharp + Oh Dear shops; not a reason to adopt Sharp or Oh Dear on its own.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• Your application uses code16/sharp for internal admin and your organization already uses Oh Dear for uptime and link monitoring.
• You want broken-link visibility inside the admin without building a custom Oh Dear integration.
• You need PHP 8.5 compatibility planning; v2.6 signals the package is being kept current.
• A lightweight, single-purpose integration is acceptable; testing is described as “basic,” so do not treat it as a heavily hardened enterprise integration.

Look elsewhere when:

• You are not on Sharp or do not use Oh Dear.
• You need scheduled crawls, CI link checks, redirect management, or bulk remediation workflows beyond what Oh Dear and Sharp expose.
• You need a vendor with a formal support SLA or extensive test coverage guarantees.
• You are evaluating link-monitoring vendors; this package is an integration layer, not a monitoring product.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

Executives: This is a small, low-risk integration that makes existing Oh Dear link data visible inside our Sharp admin. It helps content and marketing teams find and fix broken links faster, supporting SEO and customer experience without buying another tool. The latest release is maintenance-only: PHP 8.5 compatibility and basic tests.

Engineering: v2.6 is a minor compatibility release with no breaking changes. It adds PHP 8.5 support and basic testing, which reduces upgrade friction but does not materially change the integration surface. Adopt only if we already run Sharp and Oh Dear; otherwise the cost/benefit is weak.