Get a parameter from a route? - laravel

Question

I have the following route:
Route::get('news', [
'as' => 'news',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex',
]);
There are also other routes that use the same resource controller, e.g:
Route::get('travel', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex',
]);
In the article controller, how can I get the category of the articles. e.g. travel or news?
I can't turn it into a route param e.g.
Route::get('{travel}', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex',
]);
As there are other sections such as contact, faqs, etc that do not use the article controller.
I know I could put it all on one route:
Route::get('/article/{category}', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex',
]);
But I want pretty URLS like:
mydomain.com/category-slug/article-slug
Ideally if I could use a resource controller:
Route::resource('news', ArticleController');
With some sort of array:
Route::resource(['news', 'travel'], ArticleController');
So my questions:
How can I get the name of the resource. e.g. news, travel in my controller?
Is there an easy way to specify varying routes to the same resource?

Answer 1

For Example Keep your routes like this as your static routes will be limited and need to be unique so they will not get conflict between routes
demo routes :
Route::get('contact', [
'as' => 'contact',
'uses' => 'contactController#getIndex',
]);
Route::get('{travel}', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex',
]);

Answer 2

In order to achieve a route like that:
mydomain.com/category-slug/article-slug
Use the following:
Route::get('/{category}/{article}', 'ArticleController#getArticle');
Then in your controller, you will have 2 parameters in your getArticle method.
public function getArticle($category, $article)
{
//Your code here
}

Answer 3

In order to have pretty urls you need to make a few steps:
1)
First of all you need to add a column to your articles table called for example 'slug'.
2) Then you need to specify your route key in your article model. Like this:
Article model
public function getRouteKeyName()
{
return 'slug';
}
3) When you add an article you should create the slug by your own in order to be unique. so in your controller that you create the article add this code.
$slug = str_slug($article['title'], '-');
$slugs_count = DB::table('articles')->where('name',$article['title'])- >count();
if($slugs_count>1){
$slug = $slug.'-'.($slugs_count-1);
}
$article->slug = $slug;
$article->update();
4) Now we have to set the route
Route::get('/article/{slug}', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex'
])->where(['slug','[\w\d\-\_]+']);
5) Finally in order to get the article you need
$article = Article::where('slug','=',$slug)->first();
If you want to use categories etc you could pass more parameters in your route and manipulate it in your controller. like this
Route::get('/article/{category}/{slug}', [
'as' => 'travel',
'uses' => 'ArticleController#getIndex'
])->where(['slug','[\w\d\-\_]+','category','[\w\d\-\_]+']);
The where clause is to restrict the parameter with some regular expressions(its optional).
I forgot to mention that the routekeyname in your model works in laravel 5.2.