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universal
universal

Reputation: 467

Generate post slug and route on Laravel 5.5

I'm creating a blog post with Laravel 5.5. Here I want to auto-generate accessible slug for a post upon saving. What I did here was:

'slug' => str_slug(request('title'))

It generates the slug value but the page url is not working. For e.g if I click 127.0.0.1:8000/title it should redirect me.

Controller

public function save(Request $request, Post $post)
{
    $post= new Post;
    $post->title = request('title');
    $post->slig => str_slug(request('title'));

    $post->save();
}

Route

    Route::post('/', 'PostsController@save')->name('add_post');

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3239

Answers (2)

hai_shar
hai_shar

Reputation: 99

we store the title and replace every space to dash '-' to auto-generate accessible slug for a post upon saving on this steps :
i use this code on controller

   public function store(Request $request){$post->slug = str_replace(' ','-',strtolower($post->title));}

and on 

public function show($slug)
{
    //
    $post=Post::where('slug',$slug)->first();
    return view('posts.show', compact('post'));
}

and edit post link like this

<a href="/posts/{{$post->slug}}">link</a>

Upvotes: 1

James Mills
James Mills

Reputation: 554

I would look at using one of the Sluggable packages. https://packagist.org/?q=sluggable I have used the one by Spatie before and it works well.

Once you create your new entity/model and you then have a slug you will need to create a route to a controller which looks up the entity using the slug field.

$thing = Thing::whereSlug($request->get('slug'))->firstOrFail();

Upvotes: 0

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