Twill CMS•7mo ago

Creating a front-end for parent-child nested module

Hello, i need help with the frontend controller for a Parent-child modules: i want to create articles in categories, i have successfully created Category and CategoryArticle classes like in the documentation but i cannot make the page routing work web.php

Route::get('/categories/{slug}', [CategoryArticleDisplayController::class, 'show'])->name('frontend.category')->where('slug', '.*');

Route::get('/categories/{slug}', [CategoryArticleDisplayController::class, 'show'])->name('frontend.category')->where('slug', '.*');

CategoryArticleDisplayController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Category;
use App\Models\CategoryArticle;
use App\Repositories\CategoryRepository;
use App\Repositories\CategoryArticleRepository;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class CategoryArticleDisplayController extends Controller
{
    public function show(string $slug, CategoryRepository $categoryRepository, CategoryArticleRepository $articleRepository): View
    {

        $category = $categoryRepository->forSlug($slug);
        if ($category) {
            return $this->showCategory($category);////<<<THIS WORKS
        }

        $article = $articleRepository->forSlug($slug);///THIS CANNOT FIND THE ARTICLE
        if ($article) {

            return $this->showArticle($article);
        }

        abort(404);
    }

    protected function showCategory(Category $category): View
    {
        dd('category', $category);

        return view('site.category', ['item' => $category]);
    }


    protected function showArticle(CategoryArticle $article): View
    {

        dd('article', $article);
        return view('site.category-article', ['item' => $article]);
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Category;
use App\Models\CategoryArticle;
use App\Repositories\CategoryRepository;
use App\Repositories\CategoryArticleRepository;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class CategoryArticleDisplayController extends Controller
{
    public function show(string $slug, CategoryRepository $categoryRepository, CategoryArticleRepository $articleRepository): View
    {

        $category = $categoryRepository->forSlug($slug);
        if ($category) {
            return $this->showCategory($category);////<<<THIS WORKS
        }

        $article = $articleRepository->forSlug($slug);///THIS CANNOT FIND THE ARTICLE
        if ($article) {

            return $this->showArticle($article);
        }

        abort(404);
    }

    protected function showCategory(Category $category): View
    {
        dd('category', $category);

        return view('site.category', ['item' => $category]);
    }


    protected function showArticle(CategoryArticle $article): View
    {

        dd('article', $article);
        return view('site.category-article', ['item' => $article]);
    }
}

1 Reply

Tom M•7mo ago

There is no reason why this wouldn't work. I have just tried using the same code and it works fine for me. Are you sure you have a article with the slug that you're trying to find? And can you confirm that you're trying to access the article as: http://localhost/categories/{articleSlug}

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