replace underscores with dashes in codeigniter URL structure - php

Question

im having a website which is developed using codeigniter. My URL strcuture has around 4 segments and over 500 pages. Currently my URL has underscores (_) but i need to replace it which dashes (-)
current structure
mywebsite.com/app/standalone_apps/high_runner_beta/download
required URL structure
mywebsite.com/app/standalone-apps/high-runner-beta/download
i cant user the routing feature in CI coz there are too many links that needs to be redirected.
i did try the solutions in
Codeigniter Routes regex - using dashes in controller/method names
but it didn't work.
can someone suggest a method where i can replace the underscores with dashes on my URLs.

Answer 1

This work for me -> create a a php file: MY_Route.php
with this code and upload to 'application/core' directory:
<?php class MY_Router extends CI_Router {
function set_class($class)
{
$this->class = str_replace('-', '_', $class);
}
function set_method($method)
{
$this->method = str_replace('-', '_', $method);
}
function set_directory($dir) {
$this->directory = $dir.'/';
}
function _validate_request($segments)
{
if (count($segments) == 0)
{
return $segments;
}
// Does the requested controller exist in the root folder?
if (file_exists(APPPATH.'controllers/'.str_replace('-', '_', $segments[0]).'.php'))
{
return $segments;
}
// Is the controller in a sub-folder?
if (is_dir(APPPATH.'controllers/'.$segments[0]))
{
// Set the directory and remove it from the segment array
$this->set_directory($segments[0]);
$segments = array_slice($segments, 1);
while(count($segments) > 0 && is_dir(APPPATH.'controllers/'.$this->directory.$segments[0]))
{
// Set the directory and remove it from the segment array
$this->set_directory($this->directory . $segments[0]);
$segments = array_slice($segments, 1);
}
if (count($segments) > 0)
{
// Does the requested controller exist in the sub-folder?
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'controllers/'.$this->fetch_directory().str_replace('-', '_', $segments[0]).'.php'))
{
if ( ! empty($this->routes['404_override']))
{
$x = explode('/', $this->routes['404_override']);
$this->set_directory('');
$this->set_class($x[0]);
$this->set_method(isset($x[1]) ? $x[1] : 'index');
return $x;
}
else
{
show_404($this->fetch_directory().$segments[0]);
}
}
}
else
{
// Is the method being specified in the route?
if (strpos($this->default_controller, '/') !== FALSE)
{
$x = explode('/', $this->default_controller);
$this->set_class($x[0]);
$this->set_method($x[1]);
}
else
{
$this->set_class($this->default_controller);
$this->set_method('index');
}
// Does the default controller exist in the sub-folder?
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'controllers/'.$this->fetch_directory().$this->default_controller.'.php'))
{
$this->directory = '';
return array();
}
}
return $segments;
}
// If we've gotten this far it means that the URI does not correlate to a valid
// controller class. We will now see if there is an override
if ( ! empty($this->routes['404_override']))
{
$x = explode('/', $this->routes['404_override']);
$this->set_class($x[0]);
$this->set_method(isset($x[1]) ? $x[1] : 'index');
return $x;
}
// Nothing else to do at this point but show a 404
show_404($segments[0]);
} }