Replacing object ID by object name on URL on Laravel route

Question

I am trying to make my URL more SEO friendly on my Laravel application by replacing the ID number of a certain object by the name on the URL when going to that specific register show page. Anyone knows how?

This is what I got so far and it displays, as normal, the id as the last parameter of the URL:

web.php

Route::get('/job/show/{id}', ['as'=>'website.job.show','uses'=>'HomeController@show']);

Controller method

public function show($id){
        $job = Job::findOrFail($id);
        return view('website.job')->with(compact('job'));
    }

Blade page where there is the link to that page

<a href="{{route('website.job.show', $job->id)}}">{{$job->name}}</a>

Answer 1

You can overwrite the key name of your Job model:

public function getRouteKeyName()
{
    return 'name';
}

Then in your route simply use {job}:

Route::get('/job/show/{job}', ...);

And to call your route:

route('website.job.show', $job);

So your a tag would look like this:

<a href="{{ route('website.jobs.show', $job) }}">{{ $job->name }}</a>

Inside your controller, you can change the method's signature to receive the Job automatically:

public function show(Job $job)
{
    return view('website.job')
        ->with(compact('job'));
}

For more information, look at customizing the key name under implicit binding: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/routing#implicit-binding