Pass variable to default codeigniter controller - php

Question

I have my codeigniter setup with a default controller. It's accessible as follows:
site.com/index.php
But it's actually:
site.com/project/index
Where index is the default function.
I would like to do the following:
site.com/project7362
But it actually wants:
site.com/project/index/project7362
Where project name is a variable that is pass into the index function. But by default it looks for project-name as a controller. Is there a way to avoid this?
Essentially what I'm hoping to accomplish is to pass a variable directly after the domain name. A user may create a project, and I want that project to be accessible at domain.com/project_id

Answer 1

"Essentially what I'm hoping to accomplish is to pass a variable
directly after the domain name. A user may create a project, and I
want that project to be accessible at domain.com/project_id"
so another way to do this would be to have it like.
domain.com/project/id
this will give you much more flexibility later in your routes for adding different features.
in config/routes:
$route['project/(:any)'] = 'project/view/$1';
in your project controller
function view($id) {
// clean it
$id = htmlspecialchars($id) ;
if ( ! $project = $this->members->returnProjectBy($id) {
$this->showNoResultsFor($id) ; }
else { $this->show($project) ; }
}
OR -- another way to do this would be to put your defined routes first, and then have project be last (because it requires searching on whatever is there)
$route['home'] = 'page/home';
$route['contact'] = 'contact';
// etc etc so you first define your hard coded routes, and then if its not any of those
// you do a search on whatever the value is to find a project
$route['(:any)'] = 'project/view/$1';
so then your link could be
domain.com/id