(laravel) Is it possible to use method injection by passing a field other than the id?

Question

I'm kinda new to Laravel, and trying to get the most from it's method (dependency) injejction whilst also aiming to keep a good url structure (for the SEO).

Here's the case: I'm calling a route with a variable appended to it's end, like this: www.mywebsite.com/user/id

And that's addressed to a controller with a method like so:

public function listUsers(User $user){
   dd($user);
}

That's working just fine; if I go to www.mywebsite.com/user/3, Laravel will automatically fetch me the user with id = 3

But in the aims of having a better SEO, I need to change that url to somewhat like this: www.mywebsite.com/users/nickname.

Is it possible to use method injection in a way similar to what I'm currently using, but using another field (in this case, the nickname) other than the id, to get a User object from the database?

If that's possible, how can I do it?

I could do it manually, but I want to get the most out of Laravel.

Thank you for your time, and also, I'm studying english, so if you are a native english speaker or fluent on it, I'll appreciate if you point me out my grammar mistakes (briefly without distorting the post).

Bruno

Answer 1

In this case you need to define in your User Eloquent model the following method:

public function getRouteKeyName()
{
    return 'nickname';
}

You can read more about it in Route Model binding documentation.