使用Laravel Route ::资源RESTful方法的漂亮URL

Question

I have just started learning Laravel and would like to know if it is possible to create a Route::resource that would allow me to access the below URL using RESTful methods:

I would like the URL to look like this:

http://example.com/articles/2014/09/22/this-is-the-article-title

And I would like to access this from my ArticlesController using:

//GET articles/{year}/{month}/{day}/{title}
public function show($year, $month, $day, $title) {
    $article = //find article in DB
    return View::make('articles.show')->with('article', $article);
}

From what I've gathered so far, this can somehow be accomplished by doing something like the below in the routes.php file:

Route::resource('year.month.day.articles', 'ArticlesController');

But that doesn't quite look right to me.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Resource controllers are useful for building RESTful controllers that form the backbone of APIs. The general syntax is this:

Route::resource('resourceName', 'ControllerName');

This will create seven different routes in a single call, but is really just a convenience method for doing this:

Route::get('/resourceName',                 'ControllerName@index');
Route::get('/resourceName/{resource}',      'ControllerName@show');
Route::get('/resourceName/create',          'ControllerName@create');
Route::get('/resourceName/{resource}/edit', 'ControllerName@edit');
Route::post('/resourceName',                'ControllerName@store');
Route::put('/resourceName/{resource}',      'ControllerName@update');
Route::delete('/resourceName/{resource}',   'ControllerName@destroy');

The URLs are only based off of the resource's name that you specify, and the method names are built in. I am not aware of any way that you can modify those using resource controllers.

If you want pretty URLs, then assign those routes without using a resource controller:

Route::get('/articles/{year}/{month}/{day}/{title}', 'ArticlesController@show');

Note that if you do use the show method, this will conflict with any REST-ful URL that you may have defined previously (the show method in a resource controller will only expect 1 parameter passed in, namely the ID of the resource to show). For this reason I would recommend you to change the name of that method to something else.