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Tamás Pap
Tamás Pap

Reputation: 18283

URL to resource as additional (eloquent) model attribute

When retrieving models from database and sending them to the client I want to include for each model the url to that resource.

Let's take as example this Article model, with:

Storing the url to an article in the DB doesn't make sense, because it can be easily made up from id and title:

ex: http://www.example.com/articles/article_id/article_title

So, this is what I am doing now:

I use the $appends array:

/**
 * Additional attributes
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $appends = array('article_url');

and created a getter for article_url:

/**
 * Get the article url attribute
 *
 * @return string
 */
protected function getArticleUrlAttribute()
{
    return $this->exists
        ? url('articles', $parameters = array(
            $this->getKey(),
            Str::title(Str::limit($this->title, 100))
        ))
        : null;
}

This works just fine. The problem is, that probably the model should not include any logic for creating urls. What is a good approach for this problem? Where should I create the url to the article before sending it to the client?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 707

Answers (1)

John Feminella
John Feminella

Reputation: 311526

That sort of logic would usually go in whatever your framework's routing engine is. For instance, since it sounds like you're using Laravel, you'd probably make a Named Route -- call it, say, "canonical_article".

Then you can use the link_to_route helper to have your framework generate the URL.

Upvotes: 1

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