Adding clean URLS for the users profile page

There is nothing like sending a user to profile/44444-55555-6666-7777 or any page in our application. In this recipe, I will add some slugs to the user profile page.

Note

Slug? Semantic URL

Semantic URLs, also sometimes referred to as clean URLs, RESTful URLs, user-friendly URLs, or search engine-friendly URLs…

Refer to Wikipedia for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL and see an example slug in that URL.

Getting ready

A fresh install of Laravel can work for you with a database for making users for whom you can add a Slug.

How to do it…

1. Install the needed library from https://packagist.org/packages/spatie/laravel-sluggable:

   >composer require spatie/laravel-sluggable 
   

2. Update the database as needed, so we can save this slug for the user model:

   

3. Now is the time for the code to do the alteration on the table:

   

4. Then, run the migration:

   >php artisan migrate
   

5. Update the code in app/User.php as per the package docs:

   

6. Let's watch it work...