cliffordjames/laravel-urls

Easy model routes for Laravel Eloquent models

This package allows you to create easy model routes for you Eloquent models.

Installing

$ composer require cliffordjames/laravel-urls

Usage

Let's say you have the following routes for displaying a user:

Route::get('/users/{user}', function (\App\User $user) {
    return $user;
})->name('users.show');

All you have to do is add the trait to the User model:

<?php

namespace App;

use CliffordJames\LaravelUrls\HasUrl;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, HasUrl;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

And you can generate the url to this route by using the traits url() function:

$user = User::first();
//
$user->url(); // -> /users/1
// vs
route('users.show', $user); // -> /users/1

Resource routes

You can specify the route name as the first parameter in de url() function:

Route::resource('users', 'UserController');

$user = User::first();

$user->url(); // -> /users/1
$user->url('show'); // -> /users/1
$user->url('edit'); // -> /users/1/edit
$user->url('update'); // -> /users/1
...

Additional parameters

Let's say you have the following route:

Route::get('/threads/{channel}/{thread}', 'ThreadsController@show')->name('threads.show');

And you have added the trait and set the relationship from the Thread model to the Channel model, the following examples have the same outcome:

$thread->url(); // -> /threads/*channel_id*/*thread_id*
$thread->url($thread->channel); // same as above
$thread->url($thread, $thread->channel); // same as above
$thread->url([$thread, $thread->channel]); // same as above
$thread->url(['thread' => $thread, 'channel' => $thread->channel]); // same as above

route('threads.show', ['thread' => $thread, 'channel' => $thread->channel]); // same as above

Configurations

There is only one configuration you can do for now and it is setting the $baseRoute on the model itself, it defaults to the same method of how the table name for a model is generated.

User model example, when not set it defaults to user:

protected $baseRoute = 'profile';

Now $user->url() is looking for the profile.show route.