I use codeigniter v.3 and I have the following url in most of my pages:
www.domain.buu/page/index/105
Where Page is Controller Name, index is the name of the function and the 105 is the id of the record.
What I would like to have is www.domain.buu/my_custom_page_name
Where my_custom_page_name can be the something like within the routes.php
105 = "my_custom_page_name"
106 = "my_other_custom_page_name"
107 = "some_other_page_name"
Is this possible to be done? CodeIgniter Manual is not very helpful on this. I tried to change the routes with the following code:
$route['index/page/:num'] = 'my_custom_page_name';
but it didn't work.
You were on the right tracks with your route attempt, but you need to flip the arguments around.
The array key in $route is the URI the user will see, such as my_custom_page_name in your case.
The value is the controller and method you want to use, such as page/index/105
In your case, the route may be like this:
$route['my_custom_page_name'] = 'index/page/105';
If you are trying to implement seo-friendly URL, you can use slug instead of 105(assuming its a unique id) by adding an additional column in your database named slug
For instance, http://www.example.com/page/this-is-my-slug/
while using routes.php , you need to duplicate the route setting for all entries.
$route['my_custom_page_name'] = 'index/page/105';
$route['my_custom_page_name-new'] = 'index/page/106';
I'm not sure what you trying to achive but maybe this:
$route['my_custom_page_name/(:num)'] = 'page/index/$1';
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I am having a hard time in figuring out how to make a route for this case: http://wwww.domain.com/category-slug/product-slug i thought it was en easy task and i quickly add this line in route.php
$route['([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)'] = "products/show";
but, this is is also redirecting me on every page like http://wwww.domain.com/admin/dashboard and so on but, i explicitly want to use only for my products. How to tackle this issue?
Thats because, first segment admin and dashboard in the second matches [a-zA-Z0-9-]+ ,and remapped to the products class/controller and the show method/function.
If you can create url like something
products/category-slug/product-slug
Then if you set route like below
$route['products/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)'] = 'products/show/$1/$2';
I think you need to use something like this
$route['products/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'Product_controller/product_function/$1/$2'
Inside your function you can have something like this
public function product_function(cat_slug, pro_slug){
//Some code here
}
Hi guys I am trying to achieve something that I hope is possible but couldn't find the right way to find.
I am using codeigniter 2.2.0
I want to use an url in codeigniter like
domain/username/controller/method/$args
Let me explain When user types an url like
domain/mike/job/editJob/12/urgent/
Here "mike" is someone's user name
"job" will be a controller alias
"editJob" will be a method
"12" and "urgent" will be parameter of editJob method.
editJob method will have three parameters.
I want "mike" as 1st parameter,
then "12" and "urgent" as second and third parameter.
So far what I have done in my routes
$route['(:any)/job/(:any)'] = 'job_c/$2/$1';
When I type in the url
domain/mike/job/editJob/12/urgent
in Job controller I get
"12" as first parameter
"urgent" as second parameter
and "mike" as third parameter
**
Is there any possible way to get "mike" as first parameter and then the rest is okay**
Edited:
One more thing if I pass three parameters after method then I am not
getting the username!!
I need to have the username as first parameter because there may have multiple parameters in any method and there is a possibility to have conditional parameters as well.
One more thing I want to know. Is it possible to make such route that will work the same as my given route but the controller alias will also be wildcard. Or if there is any way to check if a segment in url is a controller then one route and if not a controller then something else should happen.
I am not a well describer still tried to keep it simple. If anyone knows something that will help me a lot.
Thanks
UPDATE
Is there any way to keep the username "mike" in session from routes.php file thus I don't have to pass this as a parameter.
Updating Again
I have solved the issue somehow.
I am using
$route['(:any)/garage/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/(.*)'] = '$2/$3/$1/$4';
Here garage is nothing but a simple identifier for the route. This route will work when it gets garage as a second segment in url. It will work like
domain/user/garage/anyControler/anyMethod/manyParameters
It's completely dynamic only the garage is used as identifier. If you want you can use your controller name instead of using any identifier. then you don't have to declare same thing multiple times for multiple controllers but it will work fine. It will work for any controller and any method. In addition it supports dynamic number of parameters.
I don't know if there is any better way to do this but it solves my issue. If anyone know something better then this then please share.
I think what is happening is that you are accessing
domain/mike/job/editJob/12/urgent
and its being parsed like:
job_c/editJob/12/urgent/mike
Because:
$route['(:any)/job/(:any)'] = 'job_c/$2/$1';
$2 = (:any)/job/(:any) = editJob/12/urgent
$1 = (:any)/job/(:any) = mike
Substituting:
job_c/editJob/12/urgent/mike
You could try to keep your route as similar as your current one:
$route['(:any)/job/(:any)/(:any)'] = 'job_c/$2/$1/$3';
This will allow you to match $2 to any method name, and have $1 as the first parameter and $3 as the rest of params.
But, I would suggest, if this is a very specific route, substituting the $2 :any, with the actual method name and the expected type of the params, otherwise, you might receive unexpected values to every method in the matching controller.
I would use something like:
$route['(:any)/job/editJob/(:num)/(:any)'] = 'job_c/editJob/$1/$2/$3';
Hope this helps.
Update:
For the controller matching: Code Igniter uses the form controller/method/param1/param2/...
As long as you create routes that matches controllers, methods and params in that order, you can do anything.
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = '$1/$2/$3';
or just
$route['(:any)'] = '$1';
and hopefully it will contain a controller and method and the required params.
I think this will totally be missing the point of having a routing system.
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.
I'm new to CodeIgniter and going to be using it for building a sort of reusable application with multiple instances of an application. For example, each instance of the application will have an id "12345", and inside that instance, there will be entry IDs of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, etc.
to do this, I think I will want to be able to using Routing to set up something like:
http://example.com/12345/Entry/Details/1
Where this URI will go to the Details page of the Entry of ID=1, inside application ID 12345. This would be a different group of entries from a url of, say, /12346/Entry/Details/1. Is this a routing rule that needs to be set up, and if so, can someone please provide an example of how this could be configured, and then how I would be able to use 12345, and 1, inside of the function. Thanks so much for your help, in advance.
My suggestion would be that you route your urls like this:
$route['(:any)/{controller_name}/(:any)/(:any)'] = '{controller_name}/$2/$3/$1';
so that the last parameter for the function is always the id of the app (12345/12346). Doing this means that your Entry controller functions will look like this:
class Entry extends CI_Controller
{
function Details(var1, var2, ..., varn, app_id){}
function Someother_Function (var 1, app_id){}
}
you will also need to add a route for functions that don't have anything but the app_id:
$route['(:any)/{controller_name}/(:any)'] = '{controller_name}/$2/$1'; //This may work for everything.
I hope this is what you we're asking...
Edit:
If you are only going to be using numbers you could use (:num) instead of (:any)
You can achieve a routing like that by adding this rule to the application/config/routes.php file:
$route['default_controller'] = "yourdefaultcontroller";
$route['404_ovverride'] = "";
// custom route down here:
$route['(:num)/entry/details/(:num)'] = "entry/details/$1/$2",
of course assuming your URI to be like the example.
In your controller "Entry" you'll have a method "details" which takes 2 parameters, $contestID and $photoID, where $contestID is the unique instance you're assigning, while $photoID is the other (assumed) variable of your url (last segment).
class Entry extends CI_Controller(
{
function details {$contestID, $photoID)
{ //do your codeZ here }
}
See URI routing for more info on that. You might also want to consider the __remap() overriding function, in case.
I am developing an ecommerce website with CI that has product categories and products. I want to route the URL so that it will go to the products controller, then run the getCategoryByName function for the first segment, then run the getProductByName for the second segment. Here is what I have:
URL:
products/docupen/rc805
routes.php:
$route['products/([a-z]+)'] = "products/getCategoryByName/$1";
$route['products/([a-z]+)/([a-z0-9]+)'] = "products/$1/getProductByName/$2";
But its not working. "docupen" is the category, and "rc805" is the product.
Thanks in advance.
Thank you all for your help. This is what I ended up with for what I needed.
$route['products/:any/:num'] = "products/getProductByID";
$route['products/:any/:any'] = "products/getProductByName";
$route['products/:any'] = "products/getCategoryByName";
My answer builds a bit on Colin's answer.
When I played around with the routes in CodeIgniter I came to the conclusion that the order of the routes was important. When it finds the first valid route it won't do the other routes in the list. If it doesn't find any valid routes then it will handle the default route.
My routes that I played around with for my particular project worked as follows:
$route['default_controller'] = "main";
$route['main/:any'] = "main";
$route['events/:any'] = "main/events";
$route['search/:any'] = "main/search";
$route['events'] = "main/events";
$route['search'] = "main/search";
$route[':any'] = "main";
If I entered "http://localhost/index.php/search/1234/4321" It would be routed to main/search and I can then use $this->uri->segment(2); to retrieve the 1234.
In your scenario I would try (order is very important):
$route['products/:any/:any'] = "products/getProductByName";
$route['products/:any'] = "products/getCategoryByName";
I don't know enough to route the way you wanted (products/$1/getProductByName/$2), but I'm not sure how you would create a controller to handle this particular form of URI. Using the $this->uri->segment(n); statements as mentioned by Colin in your controller, you should be able to do what you want.
You should use the URI class to retrieve the "docupen" and "rc805" segments from your url. You can then use those values in whatever functions you need.
For example, if your url is www.yoursite.com/products/docupen/rc805, you would use the following in your products controller to retrieve the segments and assign them to variables:
$category = $this->uri->segment(2); //docupen
$product = $this->uri->segment(3); //rc805
Then you can use $category and $product however you need to.
CodeIgniter routes don't work well with regex. They are supported, not I can never get them to work. It would be much easier to catch them like this
$route['products/(:any)'] = "products/getCategoryByName/$1";
$route['products/(:any)/(:any)'] = "products/$1/getProductByName/$2";