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
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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.
Related
I am creating a simple product search engine in Laravel 5.2. I can use either get or post, whichever can accomplish what I'm wanting, even if I need to do some backend processing then pass the pretty URL to another method to show the products.
My parameters are
- query
- merchant
- brand
- page
- sort
All of these parameters can be used on their own or separately.
I'm wanting to use pretty URLs if at all possible.
Basically I want the URLs to look something like this:
/shop/query/shoes
/shop/query/shoes/brand/nike
/shop/query/sort/price
/shop/merchant/amazon
There can be many different routes formed by these 5 parameters, but they are all optional. So what is the best solution to making this route work how I'm wanting, without coding for every single possible route.
I'm sure I am overlooking something. I've used Zend Framework before and just use a * after shop and then I can pass anything in regardless.
If you need any other information, let me know. I appreciate any help.
Try something like this
Route::get('shop/{params?}', function(Request $request, $params = '') {
// everything after "shop/" will be in $params
// you need to add custom logic to parse and handle $params string
return $params;
})->where('params', '(([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)\/?)+');
{params?} is Optional Parameter
Occasionally you may need to specify a route parameter, but make the presence of that route parameter optional. You may do so by placing a ? mark after the parameter name. Make sure to give the route's corresponding variable a default value
->where('params', ...) is Regular Expression Constraint
You may constrain the format of your route parameters using the where method on a route instance. The where method accepts the name of the parameter and a regular expression defining how the parameter should be constrained
NOTE
Make sure that you tweak (([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)/?)+ regular expression to cover all of your cases, as this is something that I added to quickly test your examples
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, $photoID)
{ //do your codeZ here }
}
See URI routing for more info on that. You might also want to consider the __remap() overriding function, in case.
Rather than using controller/action/key1/value1/key2/value2 as my URL, I'd like to use controller/action/value1/value2. I think I could do this by defining a custom route in my Bootstrap class, but I want my entire application to behave this way, so adding a custom route for each action is out of the question.
Is this possible? If so, how would I then access valueN? I'd like to be able to define the parameters in my action method's signature. e.x.:
// PostsController.php
public function view($postID) {
echo 'post ID: ' . $postID;
}
I'm using Zend Framework 1.9.3
Thanks!
While I don't think it's possible with the current router to allow N values (a fixed number would work) you could write a custom router that would do it for you.
I would question this approach, however, and suggest that actually listing all of your routes won't take long and will be easier in the long run. A route designed as you've suggested would mean that either your named parameters are always in the same order, i.e.
/controller/action/id/title/colour
or that they are almost anonymous
/controller/action/value1/value2/value3
With code like
$this->getRequest()->getParam('value2'); //fairly meaningless
Does it have to be N or can you say some finite value? For instance can you imagine that you'll never need more than say 5 params? If so you can set up a route:
/:controller/:action/:param0/:param1/:param2/:param3/:param4
Which will work even if you don't specify all 5 params for every action. If you ever need 6 somewhere else you can just add another /:paramN onto the route.
Another solution I've worked with before is to write a plugin which parses the REQUEST_URI and puts all the extra params in the request object in the dispatchLoopStartup() method. I like the first method better as it makes it more obvious where the params are coming from.
I'm using URI re-routing in CI to make better URLS. An example here would be:
$route['users/(:any)'] = "users/index/$1";
The aim here is to get rid of the index from URL. This works well. However it stops me from being able to access any functions in the users controller, for example
mywebsite.com/users/messages
Just redirects to the users/index. Is there a way around this?
Define the list of methods you wish to keep then let the rest wildcard match:
$route['users/(messages|login|something)'] = "users/$1";
$route['users/(:any)'] = "users/index/$1";
Hi I'm not familiar with CI but i have a similar routing system. The (:any) works as a sort of catch all. When my router checks the routing rules it stops checking if it has found an exact match. So then the answer would be to just add another functions route before the catch all. Like
$route['users'] = "users/index/";
$route['users/messages/(:any)'] = "users/checkmessages/$1";
$route['users/(:any)'] = "users/$1";
Not sure how CI handles this but i can think of something like the first URL part is the class and the second the function. The router or the controller module should have the intelligence to start calling the function even without the routing table.
The routing table should only be used in case of "other callable names" like i did above with the messages/checkmessages thingy.
hope that gets you going.