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Alexirungu
Alexirungu

Reputation: 11

Make urls from blog posts title. Laravel

I am a beginner in laravel and developing a blog website. What is the most convenient way to make blog titles links which will direct the user to the blog itself.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 995

Answers (1)

Mohsen Nazari
Mohsen Nazari

Reputation: 1349

For each of your blog posts, beside having a title, create another column slug, and when you are storing a blog post, slugify and store it too. Then you can use it in your queries and route variables.

steps:

in your migration add the slug

$table->string('slug')->unique();

Put this inside your model, this will automatically slugify the title when you are storing the model.

use Illuminate\Support\Str;
public static function boot()
{
    parent::boot();
    self::creating(function($model){
        $model->slug = Str::slug($model->title, '-');
    });
}

Then in your blog post accessing route:

Route::get('/posts/{slug_title}', 'PostController@show')->name('posts.show');

And finally inside your controller/action:

public function show($slug_title)
{
    $post = Post::query()
        ->where('slug', $slug_title)
        ->first();
    
    return $post; 
}

Upvotes: 2

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