Laravel 5: Generating HTTPS URLs With secure_url

The secure_url helper function can be used to generate secure, fully qualified URLs to a given $path. You can also supply additional data that will be added as a query string by supplying an argument for the $parameters parameter.

#Signature

The signature of the secure_url function is:

1function secure_url(
2    $url,
3    $parameters = []
4);

#Example Use

The following example demonstrates the usage of the secure_url helper function:

1$url = secure_url('arbitraryPath');
2 
3// The previous example is equivalent to:
4$otherUrl = url('arbitraryPath', [], true);

The resulting URL would look similar to the following output. The exact URL will change depending on the $path and the domain name.

1https://laravel.artisan/arbitraryPath

To generate URLs with extra data, supply an argument for the $parameters array like so:

1$url = secure_url('arbitraryUrl', [
2    'someParameter'
3])

The resulting URL would be similar to the following output:

1https://laravel.artisan/arbitraryUrl/someParameter

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