slug its not working in codeigniter - php

Question

i want url slug like this
tkd/index.php/article/77/Kejurnas-2013
but when i click button like this
tkd/index.php/article/77/Kejurnas%202013
what wrong with my code. this is my view
<div class="post-buttons-wrap">
<div class="post-buttons">
<a href="<?php echo base_url('index.php/article/' . intval($dt->id) . '/' . e($dt->slug)) ; ?>" class="ui black label">
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</a>
</div><!-- end .post-buttons -->
</div>
and this is my controller
public function index()
{
$this->data['berita'] = $this->mberita->get_berita();
$this->data['halaman'] = $this->mhalaman->get_profil();
dump('Page!');
// Fetch the page template
$this->data['page'] = $this->page_m->get_by(array('slug' => (string) $this->uri->segment(1)), TRUE);
count($this->data['page']) || show_404(current_url());
// Fetch the page data
$method = '_' . $this->data['page']->template;
if (method_exists($this, $method)) {
$this->$method();
}
else {
log_message('error', 'Could not load template ' . $method .' in file ' . __FILE__ . ' at line ' . __LINE__);
show_error('Could not load template ' . $method);
}
$this->data['contents'] = $this->data['page']->template;
$this->load->view('template/wrapper_mahasiswa', $this->data);
}
please help me what to do. thank you.

Answer 1

You have to use the helper "URL" and use the functions "url_title()" and "convert_accented_characters()" if you need to convert some special characters.
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/url_helper.html for more info
Example:
In your controller code, you will capture your form inputs. then you have to create the slug with a line like this:
$event['slug'] = url_title(convert_accented_characters($event['eventName']),'-',TRUE);
This line will return you a slug separated by "-", setting all the words to lowercase and deleting all special characters too.

Answer 2

try this- use rawurlencode while working with strings in url-
<a href="<?php echo base_url('index.php/article/' . intval($dt->id) . rawurldecode('/') . e($dt->slug)) ; ?>" class="ui black label">
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</a>