I'm working on a project where I need to create clean URL for every products, see following pattern:-
example.com/Single_Product_Page
The original URL is example.com/browse/Single_Product_Page and I used following code:-
$route['(:any)'] = 'Products/browse/$1';
I've two page (1) example.com/Product
and (2) example.com/Products/Single_Product_Page
And it is working fine but now I'm unable to open Products page and when I tried to open it, It open Single_Product_Page
Please help me to solve this issue.
You need to update your routes similar to this example (which works OK on my site):
$route['products'] = 'controller/myfunction/argument';
$route['products/:any'] = 'controller/myfunction/another_argument/$1/1';
you can get more insight from the docs here
You can use a little hack to use just your controller name (and that's a must of course) but eliminate the need to write the method name and pass your parameters directly after the controller name so basically your url would look like this: http://localhost/controller/parameter and that would give you shorter urls as you intend but not an SEO friendly as you claimed.
You can use _remap in your controller and check if it matched a method process it normally or pass it to your index (which is your default method that's doesn't have to be written in your url) .. and now you won't need to use index in your url as you intended.
public function _remap($method)
{
if ($method === 'some_method_in_your_controller')
{
$this->$method();
}
else
{
$this->index($method);
}
}
Or you can depend on ajax for all of your crud operations and your url will be pretty much fixed all the time.
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I have a route like this:
Route::get('demo/{system?}', 'MonitorController#demo');
I am using it like so because I would like my url to look like so:
mysite.com/demo/spain-system
Where spain-system will be the variable I need to get.
Right now, I'm getting it like this:
public function demo($systemName = null){
}
But I would like to be able to access to it as if it were a URL parameter with Input::get('system') so I can access to it from other methods or even from other controllers such as BaseController.php.
Is there any way to achieve this?
I've played around with Route::input('system') but then it doesn't work when I pass it as a get parameter (in other Ajax calls and so on)
Update
In PHP we can get URL params by using the $_GET function and laravel provides the function Input::get() to do so as well.
If there were no routes in laravel, I would make use of .htaccess rewrite rules to change this:
mysite.com/demo/?system=spain-system
To this:
mysite.com/demo/spain-system
And I could still retrieve the variable system as a GET parameter by using $_GET["system"].
That's kind of what I would expect of laravel, but it seems it is just treating it as the parameter of the demo method and not really as a URL variable.
Is there any way to keep treating it as a URL variable and at the same time use it in a pretty URL without the ?system= ?
So you actually just want to get an url like this? mysite.com/demo/spain-system instead of mysite.com/demo/?system=spain-system? Laravel provides that by default?
Look, When you want to get the router variable {system?} to be accesible you'll need to do this:
In your router:
Route::get('demo/{system}', 'MonitorController#demo');
Then you have an controller where this noods to stand in:
public function demo($system)
{
//your further system
//You are be able to access the $system variable
echo $system; //just to show the idea of it.
}
When you now go to to localhost/demo/a-system-name/, You'll see a blank page with a-system-name.
Hope this helps, because your question is abit unclear.
I am working on an API via which I embed images of country flags on my website & several others.
I am taking in 3 parameters i.e
Country (Name of Country - ISO Code or Full Name)
Size (Dimension of Image)
Type (Styles like flat flag, shiny round flag etc...)
Now, have everything setup correctly but stuck in handling URI.
Controller -> flags.php
Function -> index()
What I have now is :
http://imageserver.com/flags?country=india&size=64&style=round
What I want
http://imageserver.com/flag/india/64/round
I went through some articles and made this route but all of them failed
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index/country/$1/size/$2/style/$3";
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index/$1/$2/$3";
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index?country=$1&size=$2&style=$3";
I have also been having trouble with routes while writing my custom cms. Reading through your question, I see a couple issues that might very well be the answer you are looking for.
For starters, let's look at the routes you have tried:
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index/country/$1/size/$2/style/$3";
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index/$1/$2/$3";
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "welcome/index?country=$1&size=$2&style=$3";
If you want to run the index method from your flags class, which it looks like you do, you don't want to route to the welcome class at all. Currently, however, you are. Your routes should look like:
$route['flag/(:any)/(:num)/(:any)'] = "flags/index";
That way, Codeigniter will run the index method from your flags class. You don't have to worry about the country, size, or style/type in the route. The best option there would be to use the URI segment function like this:
$country = $this->uri->segment(2); //this would return India as per your uri example.
$size = $this->uri->segment(3); //this would return 64 as per your uri example.
$style = $this->uri->segment(4); //this would return round as per your uri example.
You could then use those variables to query your database and get the correct flag or whatever else you need to do with them.
So to restate my answer with a little more explanation as to why:
The routes you have currently are running the welcome controller/class and the index function/method of that controller/class. This, obviously, is not what you want. So you need to make sure your routes are pointing to the correct controller and function like I did above. The extra segments of the URI don't need to be in your route declaration, so you would then just use the uri_segment() function to get the value of each segment and do what you need with them.
I hope this helps you. I may not have found an answer for my problem, but at least I could provide an answer for someone else. If this seems confusing to you, check out the user guide at http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide. The main links you need for this are:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/uri.html
and
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html
Let me know if you need more help or if this helped solve your problem.
So I have a page:
http://www.mysite.com/controller/function
The function is defined in the controller as:
function ()
{
//some stuff here
}
However it is possible to resolve the URL:
http://www.mysite.com/controller/function/blablabla
i.e. "blablabla" can be passed to the function and forms an additional URI segment, but still brings up the same page. I have the same issue with a number of controllers / functions - how do I prevent parameters being passed to the function (or appearing as a URI segment)?
I've been working with Codeigniter and PHP for around 6 months very part time, so forgive me if the answer is obvious but my searches haven't been fruitful on this.
My goal is optimised SEO - unsure whether better to redirect the page with the extra URI segment to the correct page or to the 404 page.
You can't prevent that without changing how CI handles URI parsing.
You could force a redirect like so:
function my_happy_function($redirect=null) {
if($redirect) {
redirect('/controller/my_happy_function/');
}
}
That would strip out any variables that are given in the URI, at the cost of a page redirect.
Sounds like you want a generic catch all for pages. You can do this using routes.
For example:
$route['my_happy_function(/:any)*'] = "my_happy_function";
then in your my_happy_function index method you check the URI segments there...
public function index()
{
$something = $this->uri->segment(1);
$something_else = $this->uri->segment(2);
// etc
}
this way all calls to my_happy_function get pushed to the index method...
wait, did I understand your question correctly? If I missed the point let me know and I can update.
I've volunteered to create some db app, and I told those guys that it will be very easy, since I wanted to use CakePHP. Sadly after some time they told me they want it inside their already existing web, which is ancient highly customized PHPNuke.
So what I want is to generate just content of one <div> inside an already existing page with CakePHP. I looked up on the internet, but I didn't find what I was looking for. I'm rather a user of the framework, not developer, so I don't know much about the backend and how MVC frameworks are working inside (and this is my first try with CakePHP, since I'm Rails guy).
What I did so far is disabling mod_rewrite for Cake. Inside PHPNuke module I included Cake's index.php and rendering views with an empty layout. This somehow works, but the thing is how to form URLs. I got it working by now with
http://localhost/modules.php/posts?op=modload&name=xxxxx&file=index&do=xxxxx
but with this all links to CSS and images on PHPNuke site are broken.
Is there any way to use something like
http://localhost/modules.php?op=modload&name=xxxxx&file=index&do=xxxxx&CakePHP=/posts/bla/bla
or any other way that could do the job? I really don't want to change anything in existing PHPNuke app.
Thank you very much
Well, if you don't understand how CakePHP works you'll have trouble doing what you want, since it would mean putting hacks into the CakePHP core files to bypass the default routing. This basically means that you would be re-working the way CakePHP works, so you can forget about ever updating to a newer CakePHP version, and maintenance would be hell.
If you want to modify the system, but keep PHP-Nuke, I'd advise against jamming CakePHP in there, since that would open up too many problems to be able to predict beforehand.
I think your options are as follows:
Learn how PHP-Nuke works so you can modify it
Use regular php for the pages
Either of those are easier by orders of magnitude compared to what you wanted to do.
So to sum up solution I found, if someone will be looking for something similar. Problem solved by using two custom route classes ( http://manual.cakephp.neoboots.com/2.0/en/development/routing.html#custom-route-classes )
class CustomParserRoute extends CakeRoute {
function parse($url) {
if (parent::parse($url) != false) //if default parser has the match continue
{
// call to Router class to do the routing for new url string again,
// if &cakePHP= is in query string, use this, or use default
if ($_GET['cakePHP']) {
$params = Router::parse($_GET['cakePHP']);
} else {
$params = Router::parse("/my_controller");
}
return $params;
}
return false;
}
}
class CustomMatcherRoute extends CakeRoute {
// cusotm mathc function, that generates url string.
// If this route matches the url array, url string is generated
// with usual way and in the end added to url query used by PHPNuke
function match($url) {
$result_url = parent::match($url);
if($result_url!= false) {
$newurl = function_to_generate_custom_query()."&cakePHP=".$result_url;
return $newurl;
} else {
return $result_url;
}
}
}
And then simple configuration in routes php
App::import('Lib', 'CustomParserRoute');
App::import('Lib', 'CustomMatcherRoute');
// entry point to custom routing, if route starts with modules.php it matches
// the url and CustomParserRoute::parse class is called
// and route from query string is processed
Router::connect('/modules.php', array('controller' => 'my_controller'), array('routeClass' => 'CustomParserRoute'));
// actual routes used by cakephp app, usual routes that need to use
// CustomMatcherRoute classe, so when new url is generated, it is modified
// to be handled later by route defined above.
Router::connect('/my_controller/:action/*', array('controller' => 'my_controller'), array('routeClass' => 'CustomMatcherRoute'));
I am currently working on CMS for a client, and I am going to be using Codeigniter to build on top of, it is only a quick project so I am not looking for a robust solution.
To create pages, I am getting to save the page details and the pull the correct page, based on the slug matching the slug in the mysql table.
My question is however, for this to work, I have to pass this slug from the URL the controller then to the model, this means that I also have too have the controller in the URL which I do not want is it possible to remove the controller from the URL with routes?
so
/page/our-story
becomes
/our-story
Is this possible
I would recommend to do it this way.
Let's say that you have : controller "page" / Method "show"
$route['page/show/:any'] = "$1";
or method is index which I don't recommend, and if you have something like news, add the following.
$route['news/show/:any'] = "news/$1";
That's it.
Yes, certainly. I just recently built a Codeigniter driven CMS myself. The whole purpose of routes is to change how your urls look and function. It helps you break away from the controller/function/argument/argument paradigm and lets you choose how you want your url's to look like.
Create a pages controller in your controllers directory
Place a _remap function inside of it to catch all requests to the controller
If you are using the latest version of CI 2.0 from Bitbucket, then in your routes.php file you can put this at the bottom of the file: $routes['404_override'] = "pages"; and then all calls to controllers that don't exist will be sent to your controller and you then can check for the presence of URL chunks. You should also make pages your default controller value as well.
See my answer for a similar question here from a few months back for example code and working code that I use in my Codeigniter CMS.
Here's the code I used in a recent project to achieve this. I borrowed it from somewhere; can't remember where.
function _remap($method)
{
$param_offset = 2;
// Default to index
if ( ! method_exists($this, $method))
{
// We need one more param
$param_offset = 1;
$method = 'index';
}
// Since all we get is $method, load up everything else in the URI
$params = array_slice($this->uri->rsegment_array(), $param_offset);
// Call the determined method with all params
call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $params);
}
Then, my index function is where you would put your page function.