Laravel url alias, mismatch in url generation

Question

I have a Laravel 5.2 application where I want to display the same page on 2 different domains / routes. I have it working using the following route structure:

The routes to my primary domain:

Route::group(['domain' => 'www.primarydomain.com',
              'prefix' => 'demo-page']), function(){
    Route::get('/my-page', 'MyController@index');
    Route::get('/my-second-page', 'MyController@getPageTwo');
}

The routes to my secundary domain (note: no prefix!):

Route::group(['domain' => 'www.secundarydomain.com',]), function(){
        Route::get('/my-page', 'MyController@index');
        Route::get('/my-second-page', 'MyController@getPageTwo');
}

The idea is that both routes will work, and they do. Both www.secundarydomain.com/my-page and www.primarydomain.com/demo-page/my-page work.

The issue is when I now want to generate a link to my second page. For building my URL's in my views, I'm using the following function to generate a link to my-second-page:

url('/my-page')

This function always generates a link to www.primarydomain.com/my-page, while I need a link to www.primarydomain.com/demo-page/my-page.

Is there any easy solution to resolve this? Can this be resolved using middleware, or will a custom URL function be needed?

Expected results:

url('my-page') on www.primarydomain.com should generate a link to www.primarydomain.com/demo-page/my-page

url('my-page') on www.secondarydomain.com should generate a link to www.secondarydomain.com/my-page

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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Easiest way to do that is to create your own helper, like custom_url() and use it instead of url().

You can look how original url() helper works and create similar one. Look here:

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.3/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php#L806

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Nov 05 '16 at 09:56

Alexey Mezenin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 06 '16 at 11:16

You can assign aliases to your routes.

Route::group(['domain' => 'www.primarydomain.com', 'prefix' => 'demo-page']), function(){
    Route::get('/my-page', [
        'as' => 'my_page_prefixed', 
        'uses' => 'MyController@index'
    ]);
    Route::get('/my-second-page', [
        'as' => 'my_second_page_prefixed'
        'uses' => 'MyController@getPageTwo'
    ]);
}

And then you can call your aliased route on your blade templates by using {{ route('my_page_prefixed') }} or any other alias.

This will not be a solution, as both the primary and secondary domain use the same code. So using different aliases per domain is not possible — Arnout, Nov 08 '16 at 07:55

Laravel url alias, mismatch in url generation

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