Laravel SEO friendly URLs

Question

I started learning laravel and couldn't figure out how to solve a problem. For example if i want to create a route for products i can use a route like below.

Route::get('/product/{slug}',[ProductController::class,'index']);

In this approach we would get something like this localhost/product/macbook-pro . However i want to create a url like localhost/macbook-pro . In my project, where I did this with plain PHP using the $route variable, I was creating a table called links in the database and saving the links in it. I was doing the table structure and PHP side control as follows. url | type | type_id -- | -- | -- macbook-pro | product | 1 msi-laptop | product | 2

if ($query = DB::table('links')
    ->where('url', route(0))
    ->first()
    ) {
    $type_id = $query['type_id'];
    $route[0] = $query['type'];
}

How can i get the same approach in laravel?

Answer 1

You can customise key with Implicit Binding

Route::get('/{product:slug}',[ProductController::class,'index']);

With this, you need unique field slug in your product model.