how to pass URL String as parameter to Laravel routing

<a href="{{ url('watch', ['v' => 'youtubeId']) }}">Watch Video</a>

Think of passing urlencoded string to v then decode it in controller.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

@Yoki how I will use those function , ? ? I can't even access to video url because it's coming from user form

@bashy I dont have youtubeId because the link is coming from user form . they will type YouTube link then I post or get what he did .

It seems like laravel issue , most of the people asked the same quastion and there was no real answer , for me I solved the problem by changing the way of submitting the form ,

what I did is : I used post action , then extracting video id form url and redirect to watch?v=youtubeId

Route::post('watch', "YoutubeController@redirectToId");

public function redirectToId()
{

    $query = parse_url(request('v'), PHP_URL_QUERY);
    parse_str($query, $params);
    $youtubeId = $params['v'];

    return redirect()->to(url('watch?v='.$youtubeId)) ;


}

this is the only solution that come to my mind :p

Well you didn't really explain much about where it was coming from.

If the user adds in the full URL to the video, you need to parse that input and take the ID after v=.

$video_id = str_after($request->input('v'), 'watch?v=');

Although having the user submit it via query string will cause it to parse it wrong (double ?v=)

@bashy I can't even access the input of the user . you can try , you will get this page is not available .

laravel routing dosnt even understand that this

http://localhost:8000/watch?v=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9FE7uNvvIk

for this

Route::get('/watch',"YoutubeController@upload");

I'm getting not found page with previous example

It's because you're putting a URL into a URL... you need to urlencode() it. No way around it.