Error 404 when routing - php

Question

I'm trying to do my site like this tutorial http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/tutorial/static_pages.html
but have some problem with routing. I have page "createBook" for default and when I call localhost it's work! But when I do like localhost/createBook I have Error 404. What I'm doing wrong?
In my controller:
public function view($page = 'createBook')
{
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'views/'.$page.'.php'))
{
// Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
show_404();
}
$this->load->view($page);
}
routes.php file
$route['default_controller'] = 'Books/view';
$route['(:any)'] = 'Books/view/$1';
And I have view files in my views folder named Success and createBook

Answer 1

I don't really get your question but it seems to me that you are trying to call a controller named createBook from the url, but in your function it shows that if there is no views/createBook.php than show 404, maybe its why you get a 404, because your calling a controller as a view, i think your function should be like this :
public function view($page = 'createBook')
{
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'controllers/' . $page . '.php'))
{
// Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
$this->output->set_status_header('404');
show_404();
}
$this->load->view($page);
}
If you want your url to look something like this :
example.com/view/book/3
Your controller should look like this :
class View extends CI_Controller
{
public function book($book_id)
{
//Search the database for records about a book with its id, and return the data
//and assign it to a variable(in this case $data) ex : $data["book-name"] = ...
//And on your view you can call these values using ex : echo $book-name
$this->load->view('books_view', $data);
}
}
And make sure your .htaccess file next to the index.php looks like something like this :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]
Then go to your config, and change this line to :
$config['index_page'] = '';
Now you can access all of your controllers this way :
http://www.example.com/controller_name