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[austintoddj]

The feature/feed branch in the project contains the necessary classes to accomplish this. There's one problem though:

Canvas doesn't know about how posts are routed from the frontend. The link value in each <entry> in the feed itself needs to be an absolute path to where the post can be publicly viewed.

So, the only viable solution I can see is passing some sort of config variable to serve as the path prefix.

That would make it so the following scenarios would be covered:

• Jim structures his frontend routes like www.athlead.com/posts/post-slug
• Pam structures her frontend routes like www.theartinstitute.com/post-slug

However, Dwight wants his to look more personalized to himself:

• He structures his routes like www.schrutefarms.com/dwight/post-slug
• And his brother also blogs on his platform at www.schrutefarms.com/mose/post-slug

When it's a dynamic routing structure, even a config variable passed to Canvas won't do the job.

I'd really like to see this feature as a part of the package, but until I find a solution that will work for all these scenarios, and more, it's stuck where it is.

Related issues: #686, #490

[paulhennell]

Not sure where this got but doesn't look like this exists yet.

I was looking for a way to get the url from a $post, and was expecting a callable to pass in somewhere, which would suit the problems mentioned above.

My instinct, was using laravel macros in the CanvasServiceProvider to provide a $post->url() method that can use whatever url stratergy is desired:

Post::macro('url', function (){
            return route('post.show', ['slug'=>$this->slug]);
          //  return url($this->slug);
          //  return "/$this->user->name/$this->slug";
          //etc
});

Turns out models arn't macroable, so that doesn't work, but you could do something similar. Maybe a default $post->url() that tries to build the string from config settings, or user sets Post::setUrlMethod($callable); in the service provider and gives thier own way to resolve it.

[austintoddj]

You're right @paulhennell, it doesn't exist yet. I haven't really made use of macros before, but the solution seems pretty straightforward. Would you care to make a PR to the develop branch with your idea?