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Reputation: 11

How to create URL in laravel with uppercase or lowercase?

For SEO i need create URL in the form of uppercase or lowercase.

For example (Original URL):

https://example.com/CATEGORY/product

If user run this URL:

https://example.com/category/product or https://example.com/CATEGORY/PRODUCT

Converto to: 

https://example.com/CATEGORY/product

How to create this URL in web.php ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2760

Answers (2)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 385

If I understand your specific question correctly, you want to redirect users to https://example.com/CATEGORY/product if they hit any url that contains the same characters but use different capitalization, such as https://example.com/category/product

This kind of redirect could be handled by adding redirect logic to the route in @Chris answer.

Route::get('{category}/{product}', function($category, $product) 
{
    if(strtoupper($category) != $category || strtolower($product) != $product) {
        return redirect(strtoupper($category).'/'.strtolower($product));
    }

    $product = Product::where('product_title', strtolower($product))
        ->and('category', strtolower($category))
        ->get();

    return $product;
});

Laravel returns a 302 code by default, which indicates a temporary redirect. This is because it is much better to accidentally send a temporary redirect than to accidentally send a permanent one. In this case, it sounds like you might want to make it permanent, so add the return code to your redirect call.

return redirect(strtoupper($category).'/'.strtolower($product), 301);

That way their browser will remember to always the route you want. It will also indicate to search engines to index the correct url.

Unlike Apache, Nginx urls are case-sensitive. This is to improve performance. Laravel routes are also case-sensitive. So if you are using a Laravel + Nginx stack then you have to consider case in all your routes. You could handle redirects in the Nginx configuration, but in this case matching on http://example.com// could easily catch urls you didn't intend to.

Upvotes: 1

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 58242

Something like this will work (I'm making assumptions about what you are using category and product params for. 

Route::get('{category}/{product}', function($category, $product) 
{
    $product = Product::where('product_title', strtolower($product))
        ->and('category', strtolower($category))
        ->get();

    return $product;
});

Key points:

  • The router doesn't care if its uppercase or lowercase
  • You, need to establish how to convert from one case to the other - in the above example, I just converted to lower case (but you may need to use studley case, kebab case, etc (checkout the Laravel helpers part of the docs)).

Upvotes: 1

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