I have controller named “profile” and the URL for user profile is
www.example.com/profile/user
I am already using the rerouting of codeigniter in the routes file
$route['profile/(:any)'] = "profile/index";
what I am looking is to remove the profile controller name from the URL so it will be SEO and user friendly.
e.g
www.example.com/user
any suggestions?
You may try any one of these
// url could be yourdomain/imran
$route['(:any)'] = 'profile/index/$1';
// url could be yourdomain/10
$route['(:num)'] = 'profile/index/$1';
// url could be yourdomain/imran10
$route['([a-zA-Z0-9]+)'] = "profile/index/$1";
Your class may look like this
class Profile extends CI_Controller {
public function index($id)
{
// $id is your param
}
}
Update : (Be careful)
Remember that, if you have a class Someclass and you use url like yourdomain/Someclass then this will be routed to profile/index/$1 if you have $route['(:any)'] or $route['([a-zA-Z0-9]+)'].
You can use this in a route file:
$route['(:any)'] = "controller_name/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "controller_name/$1/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "controller_name/$1/$1/$1";
Try this:
$route['user'] = 'profile/user';
Dont know any generic way to do it
Possible duplicate of How to hide controller name in the url in CodeIgniter?
If I understand your question correctly, you just want to add a catchall to the very end of your routes file. Like:
$route['(:any)'] = 'profile/index';
This will catch everything that isn't caught by another route, so make sure this script contains logic to determine when a 404 should be presented.
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I've been researching up on how to add views and I'm stumped. I want to add a view and all I get are 404 errors. All the examples I see on the web are just to add a default controller. I have a default controller, now I want to add a new page passed an ID in the URL.
This is the controller xyz.php:
class Xyz extends CI_Controller {
public function index() {
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$this->load->model('xyz_model');
$this->load->view('xyz_main_view');
}
public function activity() {
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$this->load->model('xyz_model');
$this->load->view('xyz_activity_view');
}
}
Model is xyz_model.php, and views are xyz_main_view.php and xyz_activity_view.php.
This is routes.php:
$route['default_controller'] = 'xyz'; // works okay
// $route['xyz'] = 'xyz/activity'; // 404
// $route['activity'] = 'xyz/activity'; // 404
// $route['xyz/activity'] = 'xyz/activity'; // 404
// ... many, many other different approaches
I'm able to use http://localhost, but I'd like to use the following:
// map to main view
http://localhost/index
http://localhost/xyz
http://localhost/xyz/index
// map to activity view
http://localhost/activity
http://localhost/xyz/activity
My understanding is that some of the URLs for the main view should work automatically, not seeing it. Just http://localhost.
I haven't even touched how to get an ID from the URL for the activity page. Just want to get over this first hurdle.
Keep this code in routes
$route['default_controller'] = 'xyz';
Then Try this URL to execute "activity()" function in xyz controller.
http://localhost/[YOUR PROJECT FOLDER NAME]/index.php/xyz/activity
To Pass Parameters such as id's you can use this url.
http://localhost/[YOUR PROJECT FOLDER NAME]/index.php/xyz/activity/[ID]
For more information please check codeigniter routing library. It is really easy to understand.
https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
I want to remove controller name from every controller is it possible to do like this in route file.For single controller it is working fine for me what if I want to use for all controller in my project?
$route['default_controller'] = 'user';
$route['(:any)'] = "user/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "user/$1/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "user/$1/$1/$1";
$route['(:any)'] = "grant/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "grant/$1/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "grant/$1/$1/$1";
when I tried this its not working for me.
try this
You may try any one of these
// url could be yourdomain/imran
$route['(:any)'] = 'profile/index/$1';
// url could be yourdomain/10
$route['(:num)'] = 'profile/index/$1';
// url could be yourdomain/imran10
$route['([a-zA-Z0-9]+)'] = "profile/index/$1";
Your class may look like this
class Profile extends CI_Controller {
public function index($id)
{
// $id is your param
}
}
Update : (Be careful)
Remember that, if you have a class Someclass and you use url like yourdomain/Someclass then this will be routed to profile/index/$1 if you have $route['(:any)'] or $route['([a-zA-Z0-9]+)'].
I got the answer
$route['(:any)'] = "user/$1"; //this is dynamically for user controller
for another controller in static way like this
$route['functionName'] = "controller/functionName";
$route['functionName'] = "controller/functionName";
this work fine for me for the time .I wish if this is possible dynamically
The code example you have provided will not work because the rules are exactly the same, for example:
$route['(:any)'] = "user/$1";
$route['(:any)'] = "grant/$1";
There is no difference between the two so how is the application going to know where to route your request. It will just pick the first route that matches for all requests (user controller)
What you are trying to achieve is not possible unless (as #syed) has tried explaining above, there is a difference in at least the secondary parts of the url.
For example any numeric ids are passed to a user controller.
// url could be yourdomain/10
$route['(:num)'] = 'user/index/$1';
Any text based are passed to a different controller
// url could be yourdomain/imran
$route['([A-z]+)'] = "name/index/$1";
So on so forth.
I want to pass some variables to my URL before controller name
let's suppose my URL looks like http://mysite/controller/function/etc/etc
and I want to call it as http://mysite/username/controller/......
I have tried the solutions here but it did not work for me.
my routes.php looks like
$route['default_controller'] = "index";
$route['(:any)/index'] = "index/index/$1";
$route['(:any)/test'] = "test/page/$1";
this some how solves my problem but I have to pass the controller name for the default controller as well.
Is there any way to do like if I go to http://mysite/username, it should go to default controller???
Controller = Index, Function = getUser
Change routes to
$route['(:any)/index'] = "index/getUser/$1"
And add to index controller
public function getUser($username) {
//return user's page html
}
This assumes url style of
http://www.example.com/username/index
How can I remove controller name from url . I have two controller
home and admin
and the url's are
http://domain.com/likes/home/post/sports/20-Athletes-Who-Profited-While-in-College-/12
home/post
and
http://domain.com/likes/admin/ad_managment/edit/2
http://domain.com/likes/admin/meta_tags_home/edit/2
admin/ad_managment admin/meta_tags_home
I have already used this
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:num)'] = "home/post/$1";
It works for this URL
http://domain.com/likes/home/post/sports/20-Athletes-Who-Profited-While-in-College-/12
admin is not working. Basically I want to remove home/post Leave admin controller it doesn't matter
try this
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "home/post/$1";
Try this example
$config['base_url'] = 'http://your-site.com/';
And in your routes.php
$route['default_controller'] = 'main';
Through this method you can remove controller name from url.
check user guide of codeigniter and in this example see how the routing done.
Read more about code-igniter routing
i was wondering whats the best way to route to pages in codeigniter? Say for example user wants to route to the index page, but should i create a method in a controller that just fo rthat page, or what is better way?
No need to create separate methods or controllers. Here's how I do it:
class Pages extends CI_Controller {
function _remap($method)
{
is_file(APPPATH.'views/pages/'.$method.'.php') OR show_404();
$this->load->view("pages/$method");
}
}
So the url http://example.com/pages/about would load the view file application/views/pages/about.php. If the file doesn't exist, it shows a 404.
You don't need any special routing to do this, but you can do something like this if you wanted the URL to be http://example.com/about instead:
// Route the "about" page
$route['about'] = "pages/$1";
// Route ALL requests to the static page handler
$route['(:any)'] = "pages/$1";
Routing can be done using the application/config/routes.php file. You can define custom routes redirecting to the index page there. There is absolutly no need to create methods for every page.
A more detailed explanation can be found here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
EDIT:
Didn't realy got what you meant, but here is the solution I use:
class Static_pages extends CI_Controller {
public function show_page($page = 'index')
{
if ( ! file_exists('application/views/static_pages/'.$page.'.php'))
show_404();
$this->load->view('templates/header');
$this->load->view('static_pages/'.$page);
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
}
}
I make 1 controller in application/controllers for the static pages with 1 method in it that I use to load in the static pages.
Then I add this line to application/config/routes.php:
$route['(:any)'] = 'static_pages/show_page/$1';
//you can also change the default_controller to show this static page controller
$route['default_controller'] = 'static_pages/show_page';
In the config file located at /application/config/routes.php