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Laravel Slug Generator Package

This package hosts a robust and flexible trait designed for effortless slug generation within Laravel applications. Whether you're building a blog, e-commerce platform, or any other web application, managing SEO-friendly URLs becomes seamless with this powerful solution.

Key Features

• Automatic Slug Creation: Automatically generates slugs based on a specified field in your Eloquent models, eliminating the need for manual slug assignment.

• Unique Slug Enforcement: Ensures that generated slugs are unique within the database table, preventing conflicts and maintaining data integrity.

• SEO-Friendly URLs: Facilitates the creation of SEO-friendly URLs by generating slugs based on user-friendly field values.

• Groupable Slugs: Supports the generation of unique slugs within a specific group, allowing for distinct slugs across different categories or sections. This practically means that you can have the same slug in different categories/tasks/projects/posts/etc.

• Customizable Configuration: Easily configure the field used for slug generation via Laravel's flexible configuration system, adapting to diverse project requirements effortlessly.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require coding-wisely/laravel-slug-auto-generator

You can publish the config file with php artisan vendor:publish and select CodingWisely package from the list.

This is the contents of the published config file:

// config for CodingWisely/SlugGenerator
// replace it with your model column
return [
    'sluggable_field' => 'name',
    'groupable_field' => null, // 'category_id',
];

Replace with your field.

Usage

1. Integrate the Trait: Simply integrate the SlugGenerator trait into your Eloquent model to unlock its powerful slug generation capabilities.

2. Configuration: Customize the slug generation behavior by modifying the slug-auto-generator.php configuration file located in your config directory.

3. Effortless Integration: With the trait seamlessly integrated into your model, enjoy automatic and unique slug generation without any additional setup.

Example

use CodingWisely\SlugGenerator\SlugGenerator;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class YourModel extends Model
{
    use SlugGenerator;

    // Your model's attributes and methods...
    
    // override config file with 
    public static function getSluggableField(): string
    {
        return 'title'; // your own field on Model
    }
    // if you want to have unique slugs in different categories (groupable, such as project_id, team_id, category_id, etc.)
    public static function getGroupableField(): ?string
    {
        return 'category_id'; // your own field on Model
    }
}

Testing

composer test 

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Vladimir Nikolic
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.