Laravel 5: build URL with custom parameters

Question

I have an application in which you can choose between multiple customers. Choosing a customer will generate following URL:

http://localhost:8000/customer/CUSTOMER_NAME

From there on, I would like to choose a specific sub-page (e.g.: the support page)

How do I generate the following link:

http://localhost:8000/customer/CUSTOMER_NAME/support

So far, I always lose my CUSTOMER_NAME parameter, and I do not know how to keep it.

The framework I use is Laravel 5.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You shall do this by passing the url param to the view by

I believe you have something like this in your route

Route::get('customer/{id}', 'yourController@yourFunctionName');

Then, in your controller, you may have

public function yourFunctionName($id)
{
    return view('yourViewName')->with('id', $id);
}

Then from your view can simply do this to generate a url like this

<a href="customer/{id}/support">Click here</a>

To have the url like below

http://yourprojectname/customer/18/support

Advice : Use the Primary key or any unique field rather than using name to avoid some future issues.

Also you shall use helpers to generate url's