Mapping route to another route in Laravel

Question

I am developing an application in the Laravel 5.2 which must have a friendly URL-s. This is not problem with the regular way, where the {slug} wildcard is handled by a controller but I want to make it in a different way.

For now I have only two controllers:

ProductsController@show to show details product
CategoriesController@show to show selected category with listing products which are assigned to it

And routes:

Route::get('product/{product}', 'ProductsCategory@show')->name('product.show');
Route::get('category/{category}', 'CategoriesController@show')->name('category.show');

So when I want to echo a just use route('product.show', compact('product'))

Nothing special until I want to handle different URL-s which are fetched from a database. I thought it will be possible to make an another routes which are assigned to existing and when I use a route(...) helper it will be handled automatically. But it is not. So for example I have a new URL:

domain.com/new-url-for-product.html

so by route it should be assigned to the regular 'product.show' route with some ID, which is handled by route model binder for {product} wildcard. The same for route(..) helper it should print friendly URL-s.

I don't know if my strategy is good. How do you handle with the similar problems?

your question description are not enough to understand your problem, please elaborate it little more, So the community provide better solution. — Qazi

Qazi Qazi · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-16T08:05:16

of course route will handle this automatically. have a look into this. I am just giving you example, you have to set this code as per your need.

route('product.show', 'product'=>'new-url-for-product.html');

will generate this

domain.com/new-url-for-product.html

route('product.show', 'product'=>'new-url2-for-product.html');

will generate this URL

domain.com/new-url2-for-product.html

and so on, and then you have to handle all this in your controller method. eg: your controller method for this route is ProductsCategory@show which is

public function show($product){
 if($product == 'new-url-for-product.html'){
  //perform this
 }

 if($product == 'new-url2-for-product.html'){
  //perform this
 }
}

this just an example, you have to map this according to your need

Edited Here is the example I tested it

Route::get('/product/{product}.html', ['as'=>'product.show', 'uses'=>'ProductsCategory@show']);

Mapping route to another route in Laravel

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