Dynamic URL in the Laravel

Question

I’m working on a website project for writers. In this project there are 12 genres within the table "categories", for example: Poems, Acrostics, Chronicles, etc.

I’m having trouble creating the routes to the genres correctly. Let’s suppose a user publishes a text of the genus Acrostics with title: Field Flowers.

The URL is being generated as follows: site.com/Acrostic/field flowers/

But I don’t want the categories to come with more letters and accents in the url, outside other parts of the site. So what’s the best way to solve this situation ?

Create 12 routes for each category and only pull the title Slug dynamically ? or remove the accents and letters more when generating the URL ?

Answer 1

Greetings

My suggestion in this case is to remove the accents and uppercase letters and generate Slug manually. I always say dynamic is better than static, will give you less maintenance work in the future.

Here’s a function for that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2955251/php-function-to-make-slug-url-string

Answer 2

I think the ideal is for you to work with slug, that one library can help a lot with this, it generates slugsfrom any field you set up and she still makes the treatment for the slugbe unique.