Right way to build a link in laravel 5.3

Question

Im trying to build a dynamic link with a view page (blade) with Laravel 5.3.

My approach is:

<a href=" {{ URL::to('articles') }}/{{ $article->id}}/edit">Edit></a>  

that will output the right url with my base url and some other slug: http://mydomain/articles/23/edit
Where "23" is my article's id.

This works but I wonder if there is a cleaner way to do that?

many thanks

Solution 1

You can use named routes for this

// Your route file
URL::get('articles/{articleId}/edit', 'ArticlesController@edit')->name('articles.edit');

//Your view
<a href="{{ URL::route('articles.edit', $article->id) }}">Edit</a>

Much more cleaner IMO

Solution 2

You can use named routes for cleaner in code

In your app/Http/routes.php (In case of laravel 5, laravel 5.1, laravel 5.2) or app/routes/web.php (In case of laravel 5.3)

Define route

Route::get('articles/{id}/edit',[
             'as'   =>'articles.edit',
             'uses' =>'YourController@yourMethod'
            ]);

In Your view page (blade) use

<a href="{{ route('articles.edit',$article->id) }}">Edit</a>

One benefits of using named routes is if you change the url of route in future then you don't need to change the href in view (in your case)

Comments

[JahStation]

thanks it works! the route file was already filled ok by using the Route::resource('articles','ArticlesController'); " method

[JahStation]

the minus is not mine...by the way i try your approach but it fails due the output that is equal to article.edit/id so not what im looking for

[JahStation]

i forgot to put the name() on the route so maybe it fail due this problem

[Sebastian]

Yeah, my comment was addressed to the guy who downvoted my answer. And like you said: you need to give the route a name to use the route() helper. If you don't have a name on the route you can use the url() helper instead.