Resourceful Controllers

{note} laravel-breadcrumbs has been archived and is no longer maintained. Use caution when installing in your apps.

Laravel automatically creates route names for resourceful controllers, e.g. photo.index, which you can use when defining your breadcrumbs. For example:

// routes/web.php
Route::resource('photo', PhotoController::class);

The generated routes:

$ php artisan route:list
+--------+----------+--------------------+---------------+-------------------------+------------+
| Domain | Method   | URI                | Name          | Action                  | Middleware |
+--------+----------+--------------------+---------------+-------------------------+------------+
|        | GET|HEAD | photo              | photo.index   | PhotoController@index   |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | photo/create       | photo.create  | PhotoController@create  |            |
|        | POST     | photo              | photo.store   | PhotoController@store   |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | photo/{photo}      | photo.show    | PhotoController@show    |            |
|        | GET|HEAD | photo/{photo}/edit | photo.edit    | PhotoController@edit    |            |
|        | PUT      | photo/{photo}      | photo.update  | PhotoController@update  |            |
|        | PATCH    | photo/{photo}      |               | PhotoController@update  |            |
|        | DELETE   | photo/{photo}      | photo.destroy | PhotoController@destroy |            |
+--------+----------+--------------------+---------------+-------------------------+------------+

Your breadcrumbs:

// routes/breadcrumbs.php

// Photos
Breadcrumbs::for(
    'photo.index',
    fn (Generator $trail) => $trail->parent('home')->push('Photos', route('photo.index'))
);

// Photos > Upload Photo
Breadcrumbs::for(
    'photo.create',
    fn (Generator $trail) => $trail->parent('photo.index')->push('Upload Photo', route('photo.create'))
);

// Photos > [Photo Name]
Breadcrumbs::for(
    'photo.show',
    fn (Generator $trail, $photo) => $trail->parent('photo.index')->push($photo->title, route('photo.show', $photo))
);

// Photos > [Photo Name] > Edit Photo
Breadcrumbs::for(
    'photo.edit',
    fn (Generator $trail, $photo) => $trail->parent('photo.show', $photo)->push('Edit Photo', route('photo.edit', $photo))
);

For more details see Resource Controllers in the Laravel documentation.