Adding slugs to your Posts

What is a slug?
 

A slug is an SEO friendly URL often created by replacing using the title of a post and replacing titles with hyphens. 

First ensure you have a column to store the slug in your database and on your model.

If you don't run a migration
 

You can easily crate a slug using 

Laravel had a Slug helper method which can be used but generally you also want to check for duplicate slugs -- and append a suffix --  when they are automatically generated

$slug = Str::slug('$request->$title', '-');

There are several package that will take care of this for you and other best practices in generating slug
 

composer require cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\ServiceProvider"
php artisan config:clear

add the sluggable method to the Post model. This assumes you have a column slug in table associated with the model

use Cviebrock\EloquentSluggable\Sluggable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use HasFactory, Sluggable;
 
    public $fillable = [
        'title',
        'body',
        'slug',

        'user_id'
    ];

    /**
     * Return the sluggable configuration array for this model.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function sluggable(): array
    {
        return [
            'slug' => [
                'source' => 'title'
            ]
        ];
    }

this will even work really nicely with your factoryies