---
title: "Slugs & URLs — Shops for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Per-locale slugs for shops, products and categories — database-enforced uniqueness, locale-aware route binding and opt-in 301 slug history."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/shops-for-laravel/slugs
language: en
---

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# Slugs & URLs

Shop, product and category slugs come from sluggable-for-laravel. Each model stores one slug per locale in its slug column and uses it as the route key:

| Model | Unique | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Shop` | Across all shops, per locale | acme, acme-2 |
| `Product` | Within its shop, per locale | Two shops may both sell chair; a second Chair in one shop is chair-2 |
| `Category` | Within its shop, per locale | Same as products |

- Generated per locale from name: Chair / Stolička becomes chair / stolicka.
- Enforced by the database — the migrations add a unique index per supported locale (scoped by shop\_id on products and categories), so even a race or a raw insert cannot duplicate one. Soft-deleted rows keep their slug reserved, so a restore never collides.
- Manual slugs are normalised and made unique; a locale added later is filled in on the next save; an empty name gets a random slug.
- Route binding matches the request locale, then shops.locales.fallback, then any locale — on every database engine, including tenant-scoped routes.

```php
Route::get('/shops/{shop}/products/{product}', ShowProduct::class)->scopeBindings();
// /shops/acme/products/chair — another shop's "chair" is a 404
```

Every sluggable reader and scope is available on the three models:

```php
$product->currentSlug();   // "stolicka" under sk
$product->slugFor('en');   // "chair"
$product->slugMap();       // ['en' => 'chair', 'sk' => 'stolicka']

Product::query()->forShop($shop)->whereSlug('chair')->first();
```

The default variant’s SKU derives from the fallback-locale slug (CHAIR-DEFAULT), so it is the same whatever locale the creating request ran under.

## Slug history (opt-in)

Turn on slugs.history and publish sluggable’s migration — a shop, product or category whose slug changes keeps answering its old URL with a 301 to the new one. Renaming does not change the slug: a slug is generated once, from the first name, so links stay stable. To move the URL with a rename, set the new slug yourself ($product->setTranslation('slug', 'en', 'armchair')->save()) — with history on, the old one redirects:

```bash
# .env
SHOPS_SLUG_HISTORY=true

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="sluggable-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

## Upgrading an existing database

A database that ran the shops migrations before the sluggable integration has no slug indexes yet. Per model (Shops\\Shop, Products\\Product, Products\\Category): find duplicates, preview and apply the rewrite, then add the indexes. Adding a locale later works the same way:

```bash
php artisan sluggable:duplicates "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product"
php artisan sluggable:regenerate "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product" --mode=all --dry-run
php artisan sluggable:regenerate "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product" --mode=all
php artisan sluggable:indexes "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product"

# Adding a locale later:
php artisan sluggable:regenerate "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product" --locale=de
php artisan sluggable:indexes "RoundlyConsulting\Shops\Products\Product"
```

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