show name instead of id in a url using laravel routing

Question

I have defined a route in laravel 4 that looks like so :

Route::get('/books/{id}', 'HomeController@showBook');

in the url It shows /books/1 for example , now i'm asking is there a way to show the name of the book instead but to keep also the id as a parameter in the route for SEO purposes

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You could also do something like this:

Route::get('books/{name}', function($name){
    $url = explode("-", $name);
    $id = $url[0];
    return "Book #$id";
});

So you can get book by id if you pass an url like: http://website.url/books/1-book-name

Answer 2

if your using laravel 8, this may be helpfull.
In your Controller add this

public function show(Blog $blog)
{
    return view('dashboard.Blog.show',compact('blog'));
}

In your web.php add this

Route::get('blog/{blog}', [\App\Http\Controllers\BlogController::class,'show'])->name('show');

Then add this to your model (am using Blog as my Model)

 public function getRouteKeyName()
{
    return 'title'; // db column name you would like to appear in the url.
}

Note: Please let your column name be unique(good practice).
Result: http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/HelloWorld .....url for a single blog
So no more http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/1
You are welcome.