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A lightweight and flexible Laravel package to generate unique, SEO-friendly slugs for your Eloquent models.
Perfect for creating clean URLs for blogs, products, users, and more.

🚀 Features

• Generate unique slugs from any model field
• Prevents duplicates by auto-appending numbers
• Configurable separator and max retry count
• Works with any Eloquent model
• Supports Laravel >=7x
• Includes Facade (Slug::) and Service Provider
• Publishable config file

📦 Installation

Require the package via Composer:

composer require myolbd/unique-slug

Configuration

Service Provider Registration In config/app.php, add in providers array -

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Myol\UniqueSlug\SlugServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

Facade Class Alias Add in aliases array -

'aliases' => Facade::defaultAliases()->merge([
    // ...
    'Slug' => Myol\UniqueSlug\Facades\Slug::class,
    // ...
])->toArray(),


## Use from Controller

#### Import first the UniqueSlug facade
```php
use Myol\UniqueSlug\Facades\Slug;

Example #01- Post unique slug from title

Let's assume, we have in Post class, we've added slug column which is unique. Now, if we passed title and generate slug from that, then -

use App\Models\Post;

// First time create post with title Simple Post
Slug::generate(Post::class, 'Simple Post', 'slug');
// Output: simple-post

// Second time create post with title Simple Post
Slug::generate(Post::class, 'Simple Post', 'slug');
// Output: simple-post-1

// Third time create post with title Simple Post
Slug::generate(Post::class, 'Simple Post', 'slug');
// Output: simple-post-2

Example #02 - Pass custom separator

Let's assume separator is '' empty.

// First time create user.
Slug::generate(User::class, 'sujon', 'username', ''); // sujon

// Second time create user.
Slug::generate(User::class, 'sujon', 'username', ''); // sujon1

// Third time create user.
Slug::generate(User::class, 'sujon', 'username', ''); // sujon2

Example - Unique slug for category or any model easily

public function create(array $data): Category|null
{
    if (empty($data['slug'])) {
        $data['slug'] = Slug::generate(Category::class, $data['name'], 'slug');
    }

    return Category::create($data);
}

Generate method -

Slug::generate($model, $value, $field, $separator);

/**
 * Generate a Unique Slug.
 *
 * @param object $model
 * @param string $value
 * @param string $field
 * @param string $separator
 *
 * @return string
 * @throws \Exception
 */
public function generate(
    $model,
    $value,
    $field,
    $separator = null
): string

Publish configuration

php artisan vendor:publish myolbd/unique-slug

Configurations

return [
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Slug default separator.
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | If no separator is passed, then this default separator will be used as slug.
    |
    */
    'separator' => '-',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Slug max count limit
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Default 100, slug will generated like
    | test-1, test-2, test-3 .... test-100
    |
    */
    'max_count' => 100,
];

Contribution

You're open to create any Pull request.