Automatically generate slug when saving model.

This snippet code automatically generate a url-friendly slug where spaces are converted into dash character for website address, normally use in some blog page of the website

class Item extends Model
{
    public static function boot()
    {
        parent::boot();
        static::saving(function ($model) {
            $model->slug = str_slug($model->name);
        });
    }
}

Slug is a Laravel helper that converts a given string into a dash separated string

str_slug()

The str_slug function generates a URL friendly "slug" from the given string:

$title = str_slug('Laravel 5 Framework', '-');

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