What does "as" keyword mean in Laravel routing?

Question

As I understand from the Laravel documentation, it's used for redirection, but maybe I'm wrong.

I wrote

Route::get('user/profile', ['as' => 'profile', function () {
    echo 'some_text';
}]);

then I was expecting my URL to redirect from https://base_url/public/index.php/user/profile to https://base_url/public/index.php/profile but it doesn't happen.

Overall, I want to know, what the difference is if I used

Route::get('user/profile', function () {
    echo 'some_text';
});

instead of the above routing rule.

Nicklas Kevin Frank · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-15T11:31:43.047

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The purpose isn't for re-direction in your routing file.

Instead, with the example route you provided, Laravel will allow you to reference said route by using:

$url = route('profile');

So you don't have to build the URL manually over and over again in your code.

So, in short: the difference is the first thing is a named route, and the last thing is a non-named route. Since you called the first route, you can reference it by that name.

edited Sep 15 '16 at 11:31

answered Jun 16 '15 at 07:09

Nicklas Kevin Frank

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where is the `as` keyword documented in the Laravel doc ? – Istiaque Ahmed Aug 30 '18 at 08:10
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As keyword is in older version, if you change the documentation to 5.2 you can see the `as` keyword. In newer version it's `->name` – Nicklas Kevin Frank Aug 30 '18 at 11:33
So it's like the `name()` method, right ? – Eyad Mohammed Osama Jan 31 '23 at 08:36
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@EyadMohammedOsama Yes, it is the same. – Nicklas Kevin Frank Jan 31 '23 at 10:00

What does "as" keyword mean in Laravel routing?

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