How to URL encode a URI route parameter in Laravel

Question

I have a URI I need to pass inside a route to a controller. How do I handle this, or more specifically, how can I pass a string that would typically need to be URL encoded first? Could this be Howhandledy, a regular expression constraint in the route?

String to pass

itm:n#_123445

Route

Route::get('getChildren/{uri}', 'ChildrenController@getChildren');

Answer 1

You can use URL facade to do that. Full path is Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL or just use \URL since it is added in config/app.php file.

Usage:

URL::to('/getChildren', ['itm:n#_123445']));

Generated url:

http://domain.test/getChildren/itm%3An%23_123445

Handling

Route::get('getChildren/{url}', function ($url) {
    dd($url); // itm:n#_123445

});

Hope this helps you