Shouldn't your url http://www.site.com/cat1/abcdefghijklmnopqr actually be http://www.site.com/test/cat1/abcdefghijklmnopqr

mcraz, you are correct. The URL's I typed were to illustrate my intended effect, I should have been a bit more cohesive with my example. I have corrected the URL's in my original post to reflect my example route. Thanks!

Any ideas?

Regex101.com suggests that your regex is incorrect. http://regex101.com/

Did you mean to escape the last / before the question mark?

meigwilym, good catch. Interesting though, because it works (with the exception of the 18th character). With the regex updated to: ([-a-zA-Z0-9]+/?)* which now passes regex101, it still has the same 18th character issue....

I appreciate the help! Any other ideas?

Hi.

I test your problem and i see error

Try this code

Route::pattern('cat', '[A-Za-z0-9+_-]+');
Route::get('test/{cat}/{slug}', function($cat, $slug) {

    return "cat: " . $cat . " slug: " . $slug;

});

or

Route::any('test/{cat}/{slug}', function($cat,$slug){
    echo $cat;
    echo $slug;
})->where('cat','[A-Za-z0-9+_-]+');

I think problem at

([-a-zA-Z0-9]+\/?)*

Have fun

tuyenlaptrinh, thank you. However, that doesn't address multiple categories. The regex is working. I can pull the categories and slug. The problem is that the slug is limited in length and I can't figure out why. I am not sure this is related to the regex as the problem happens on the {slug}/$slug parameter where no pattern is applied. I believe this because I can return the $cat and $slug and see the expected results for category and slug, until the slug exceeds 17 characters. Or, am I thinking of this totally wrong?

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I really don't know your problem.

Sorry, this problem has remained unsolved and was on the back burner until now. I updated the original post to include a test site to illustrate my problem:

You can test this at www.trashaccount.com/test/cat/slug (www.trashaccount.com/test/{category1}/{category2}/.../{slug}

www.trashaccount.com/test/one/two/three/four/five/six/seven/eight -- this works www.trashaccount.com/test/one/two/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/three/four/five -- this works

It is the last slug that can't be longer than 17 characters, so this: www.trashaccount.com/test/one/two/three/abcdefghijklmnopqrs -- doesn't work.

To clarify the issue another time: This pattern allows me to have unlimited categories, the categories can be of any length, it is the final element, the slug, that can't be longer than 17 characters which is very limiting. I can't figure out why that is the only element being limited. Please help :)