Provide link of a page in laravel - laravel-5

Question

I have a database of questions which are viewed in localhost:8000/questions/{id}. I have created a chatbot in the existing laravel project. Now, I want to provide the user with the link of the question.
For example, if I want the link to a question of id=55, then the bot has to reply me with the link localhost:8000/questions/55.
How do I do that?
web.php
Route::resources([ 'questions' => 'QuestionController', ]);
Route::match(['get', 'post'], '/botman', 'BotManController#handle');
QuestionController.php
public function show(Question $question) {
return view('question')->with('question', $question);
}
botman.php
use BotMan\BotMan\BotMan;
use BotMan\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use BotMan\BotMan\Cache\DoctrineCache;
use BotMan\BotMan\Drivers\DriverManager;
use App\Conversations\StartConversation;
DriverManager::loadDriver(\BotMan\Drivers\Web\WebDriver::class);
$cachedriver = new Doctrine\Common\Cache\PhpFileCache('cache');
BotManFactory::create(config('botman', new
DoctrineCache($cachedriver)));
$botman = app('botman');
$botman->hears('Hello|Hi',
function($bot) {
$bot->typesAndWaits(1);
$bot->startConversation(new StartConversation);
}
);
BotManController.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use BotMan\BotMan\BotMan;
use BotMan\BotMan\BotManFactory;
use BotMan\BotMan\Messages\Conversations;
use App\Conversations\StartConversation;
class BotManController extends Controller {
public function handle() {
$botman = app('botman');
$botman->listen();
}
public function startConversation(Botman $bot) {
$bot->startConversation(new StartConversation());
}
}

Answer 1

first we get all the ids from the questions table:
$questions = DB::table('questions')->select('id')->where('body', 'like', '%' . $answer . '%')->get();
$ids here is a collection of id so for each id we must create a link:
$links = array();
foreach($questions as $question){
$links[] = route('questions.show', ['id' => $question->id]);
}
so now we have all links needed to return as answer, finish it using $this->say... as you wish
you may want to return the first link not all links then get the first id from the database and create link using it:
$question = DB::table('questions')->select('id')->where('body', 'like', '%' . $answer . '%')->first()
$link = route('questions.show', ['id' => $question->id]);
then return the answer using $this->say
I hope this helps