Codeigniter Bootstrap RESTServer - How to set up routing? - php

Question

I was doing this tutorial: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/working-with-restful-services-in-codeigniter--net-8814 (of course) and I found CodeIgniter and Bootstrap on a Github-Repo (CodeIgniter-Bootstrap). I just don't get why I cannot access my REST-Server via the REST-URLs. Routing is not very well mentioned by any Tutorial.
This is my Rest-Controller player.php in the application/controller directory:
<?php defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
require(APPPATH'.libraries/REST_Controller.php');
class Players extends REST_Controller {
function index() {
echo 'It works';
}
public function players_get() {
$this->response($this->db->select('playerName')->result());
}
public function player_get() {
if(!$this->get('playerName')) {
$this->response(NULL, 400);
}
$playerName = $this->input->get('playerName');
$this->response($this->db
->select('playerName')
->from('players')
->where('playerName', $playerName)
->get()
);
}
public function player_post() {
$playerName = $this->input->post('playerName');
$password = $this->input->post('password');
$player = array(
'playerName' => $playerName,
'password' => $password
);
// INSERT INTO 'players' (playerName, password) VALUES ($playerName, $password);
$this->db->insert('players', $player);
// On success, send back array with data
$this->response($player, 201); // Send an HTTP 201 Created
// On fail, send empty array
$this->response(array()); // HTTP 404 Not Found
}
}
That I wrote into the routes.php:
$route['players'] = "players";
This is what I wrote into the config.php:
$root = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$root .= str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']),"",$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$config['base_url'] = $root;
$config['index_page'] = '';
I do not have a model yet. I just want to try out, if I can access the API via this url:
myproject.cloudcontrolled.com/players
. I thought, that at least it will show me the echo that I have in the index()-function. But all I get is a 404.
In the end, what I need to do is to send a POST-Request via $.ajax:
function myRegSubmit() {
$.ajax({
url: "http://myproject.cloudcontrolled.com/players/player",
data: {
playerName: $("#inputPlayer").val(),
password: $("#inputPassword").val()
},
type: "POST",
dataType: "json",
// code to run if the request succeeds;
// the response is passed to the function
success: function (json) {
$("#errorSpan").append(" It worked!");
//$( "<h1/>" ).text( json.title ).appendTo( "body" );
//$( "<div class=\"content\"/>").html( json.html ).appendTo( "body" );
},
// code to run if the request fails; the raw request and
// status codes are passed to the function
error: function (xhr, status) {
$("#errorSpan").append(" Sorry, there was a problem!");
},
// code to run regardless of success or failure
complete: function (xhr, status) {
$('#errorSpan').append(" The request is sent!");
}
});
}
It is my first CodeIgniter-project and first REST-API so if someone could help, I would really much appreciate that. What did I overlook? I am sitting on this since hours!
Thanks a lot for every helpful answer!

Answer 1

in your code:
$.ajax({
url: "http://myproject.cloudcontrolled.com/players/player",
it sends data to 'players' controller 'player' method, if you want to use index mehtod change your route
$route['players/(:any)'] = "players"