Using slugs in laravel 5?

Question

I have made eloquent-sluggable work on my app. Slugs are saved just fine. Buuuut... How do I use it to create a pretty url?

If possible, I would like to use them in my url instead of ID numbers.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use slug in your route and generated url, for example, if you declare a route something like this:

Route::get('users/{username}', 'UserController@profile')->where('profile', '[a-z]+');

Then in your controller, you may declare the method like this:

public function profile($username)
{
    $user = User::where('username', $username)->first();
}

The username is your slug here and it must be a string because of where()... in the route declaration. If an integer is passed then route couldn't be found and 404 error will be thrown.