How to create a Unique slug

Are you using eloquent?

The actual method doesn't validate against any values by default.

// Illuminate/Support/helpers.php

if (! function_exists('str_slug')) {
    /**
     * Generate a URL friendly "slug" from a given string.
     *
     * @param  string  $title
     * @param  string  $separator
     * @return string
     */
    function str_slug($title, $separator = '-')
    {
        return Str::slug($title, $separator);
    }
}

So, you have a couple options:

1. Call str_slug() then test the returned value against your database (perhaps start by defining your slug column as unique so the database enforces the constraint). At this point do as WordPress and append separator + 1 (i.e., my-new-slug-1).

2. Go ahead and append a unique string to your slugs by default (perhaps datestamp or post UUID).

https://packagist.org/packages/cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable

@adamprickett nice find. Will work if dev is using eloquent. But where's the fun in just using a package? :-D