Its very important to have user friendly URL for SEO purpose and this help to user to know that website they are on is correct or not.
If there are spaces in URL then space will be replaced by %20 that is not good for user friendly so you always need sluggify URL.
Working with Laravel, this is much more easier to generate slug from given string using str_slug
method.
There are so many helper method provides by Laravel that can be used in your application.
When you work with laravel framework then always use all defined functionality that will save your time and effort.
str_slug
generate sluggify url from given string if there are spaces or special character in string that is not good for user friendly URL then it remove all these spaces and special character from string.
$slug = str_slug('ExpertPHP.in provides PHP Tutorials Best For Beginners'); print_r($slug);Output :
expertphpin-provides-php-tutorials-best-for-beginners