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Creating a URL Friendly Slug From a Title

Discover how to convert titles into URL-friendly slugs using Laravel's slug helper method. Learn the process of transliterating UTF-8 strings to ASCII, replacing special characters, and formatting strings for dynamic URLs in your web applications.

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Creating a URL from a title

We can use the slug helper method to format the provided value into a URL-friendly version. This helper method is valuable when constructing URLs from dynamic input, such as a blog title.

PHP
<?php
/**
 * Versions: Laravel 8, 9
 *
 * @return string
 */
public static function slug(
         string $title,
         string $separator = '-',
    string|null $language = 'en'
);

Internally, the ...