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NightMICU
NightMICU

Reputation: 9240

URLEncode for HTML::link in Laravel

I am setting up a blog in Laravel and cannot seem to figure out how to generate escaped URLs with HTML::link(..). For example, I have links to different categories in the Blog such as Department News, I am trying to get a link formatted like so - http://localhost/blog/category/department+news., where Department News is generated by $post->category

I have tried the following code and it produces http://localhost/blog/Department News

{{ HTML::link('admin/blog/category/' . $post->category, $post->category) }}

How can I escape this and generate the desired URL?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 41573

Answers (2)

Artistan
Artistan

Reputation: 2037

Sorry. I disagree with Wesley, this works...

If you used named routes the Url::route('category_browse',[category]) call will encode the values. The second parameter in the route method allows mixed content. So if you have only one parameter in your route you can pass a single value, otherwise an array.

in twig (TwigBridge) this is ...

{{ url_route('category_browse',[category]) }}

otherwise (Blade) it should be ...

{{ Url::route('category_browse',[category]) }}

and your names route should be like this ...

Route::any('/blog/category/{category}',
    array(
        /*'before'=>'auth_check', -- maybe add a pre-filter */
        'uses' =>'BlogController@category',
        'as' => 'category_browse'
    )
);

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 102864

Usually, you'd have each post category use a slug column in the database for the URL fragment, and then use something like:

HTML::link('blog/category/'.$post->category->slug, $post->category->name)

There's appears to be no way with Laravel to automatically encode only certain parts of the URL, so you'd have to do it yourself:

HTML::link(
    'admin/blog/category/'.urlencode(strtolower($post->category)),
    $post->category
)

You might want to consider using the "slug" approach. You don't necessarily have to store it in the database, you could have your class generate it on the fly:

class Category {
    function slug() {
        return urlencode(strtolower($this->name));
    }
}

I'm not sure what you're working with exactly, but hopefully you get the idea.

Upvotes: 7

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