I'm completely new to ci,
I have a url something like this:
http://localhost/mvc/post/prod_id/1
And I want it to be:
http://localhost/mvc/post/my-best-product
So far I'm able to manage to route all that to home/post/ and learned the segment function also.
But my question is how do I really get the url_title out to the actual url.
I couldn't find any information on this particular subject. All I could find is how to use the url_title and how to route in ci. But they don't explain how we can actually change the base url name.
Please guide me to the right direction.
solution Example:
public function my_method($product_slug)
{
$product1 = "training-for-recruitment";
$product2 = "training-for-od";
if($product_slug==$product1)
{
$this->load->view('prod1');
}else if($product_slug==$product2)
{
$this->load->view('prod2');
}else{
show_404();
}
}
This is not what exactly I'm going to do. It is just for others to understand the workaround of Slugs.
Generate a unique slug for each of your product. Add a field for it on product table and every time, while selecting a product from table, use that slug instead of getting the product from primary id.
So, your function becomes like:
function product($product_slug)
{
//get product by slug from database
//load view page
}
Now, in config/routes.php
$route['your_controller_name/(:any)'] = "your_controller_name/product/$1";
You need to do this:
Set up some logic that translates "my-best-product" to "1"
Set up routing in CI that calls your 'prod_id' controller and passes the URI vars
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I'm writing a control panel for my image site. I have a controller called category which looks like this:
class category extends ci_controller
{
function index(){}// the default and when it called it returns all categories
function edit(){}
function delete(){}
function get_posts($id)//to get all the posts associated with submitted category name
{
}
}
What I need is when I call http://mysite/category/category_name I get all the posts without having to call the get_posts() method having to call it from the url.
I want to do it without using the .haccess file or route.
Is there a way to create a method on the fly in CodeIgniter?
function index(){
$category = $this->uri->segment(2);
if($category)
{
get_posts($category); // you need to get id in there or before.
}
// handle view stuff here
}
The way I read your request is that you want index to handle everything based on whether or not there is a category in a uri segment. You COULD do it that way but really, why would you?
It is illogical to insist on NOT using a normal feature of a framework without explaining exactly why you don't want to. If you have access to this controller, you have access to routes. So why don't you want to use them?
EDIT
$route['category/:any'] = "category/get_posts";
That WOULD send edit and delete to get_posts, but you could also just define those above the category route
$route['category/edit/:num'] = "category/edit";
$route['category/delete/:num'] = "category/delete";
$route['category/:any'] = "category/get_posts";
That would resolve for the edit and delete before the category fetch. Since you only have 2 methods that conflict then this shouldn't really be that much of a concern.
To create method on the fly yii is the best among PHP framework.Quite simple and powerful with Gii & CRUD
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/quickstart.first-app
But I am a big CI fan not Yii. yii is also cool though.
but Codeigniter has an alternative , web solution.
http://formigniter.org/ here.
I want to be able to choose a controller based on data gathered form the uri.
I have a categories table and a subcategories table. Basically I have a URL in the following format (:any)/(:any). The first wildcard is a city slug (i.e edinburgh) and the second is going to be either a category or a subcategory slug.
So in my route I search for categories with that route, if I find it, I want to use controller: forsale and method: get_category. If it's not a category I'll look up subcategories, if I find it in there I want to use controller: forsale and method: get_subcategory. If it's not a subcategory I want to continue looking for other routes.
Route::get('(:any)/(:any)', array('as'=>'city_category', function($city_slug, $category_slug){
// is it a category?
$category = Category::where_slug($category_slug)->first();
if($category) {
// redirect to controller/method
}
// is it a subcategory?
$subcategory = Subcategory::where_slug($category_slug)->first();
if($subcategory) {
// redirect to controller/method
}
// continue looking for other routes
}));
First off I'm not sure how to call a controller/method here without actually redirecting (thus changing the url again).
And secondly, is this even the best way to do this? I started using /city_slug/category_slug/subcategory_slug. But I want to only show city_slug/category|subcategory_slug but I need a way to tell which the second slug is.
Lastly, there may be other URL's in use that follow (:any)/(:any) so I need it to be able to continue looking for other routes as well.
Answer to your questions in order:
1. Instead of using different controller#action's you could use a single action and based on the second slug (category or subcategory), render a different view (although I don't like this approach, see #2 and #3):
public class Forsale_Controller extends Base_Controller {
public function get_products($city, $category_slug) {
$category = Category::where_slug($category_slug)->first();
if($category) {
// Do whatever you want to do!
return View::make('forsale.category')->with(/* pass in your data */);
}
$subcategory = Subcategory::where_slug($category_slug)->first();
if($subcategory) {
// Do whatever you want to do!
return View::make('forsale.sub_category')->with(/* pass in your data */);
}
}
}
2. I think /city_slug/category_slug/subcategory_slug is way better than your method! You should go with this one!!
3. Again, you should revise your routes. I always try to make my routes in a way that they don't confuse me, neither Laravel!! Something like /products/city/category/subcategory is much more clear!
Hope it helps (my code is more like a psudocode, it's not been tested )!
I have searched for the solution to my problem in CI user guide and on Stackoverflow as well but couldn't find. So, here is my problem.
I need to build SEO friendly URLs. I have a controller called "Outlets" and the view that I need to generate will have a URL structure like http://www.mysite.com/[city]/[area]/[outlet-name].
The segments city and area are fields in their respective tables and outlet_name is a field in the table "Outlets".
I am able to generate a URL like http://www.mysite.com/outlets/123 but how do I add the city and area name to the URL.
If all of your page use the same controller, in config/routes.php add this...
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "outlets/$1/$2/$3";
$route['(:any)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "outlets/$1/$2/$3/$4"; // fixed typo
In the controller you will want to remap the function calls because Codeigniter will be looking for functions with the names of the city and they will not exist.
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html#remapping
public function _remap($city, $area, $outlet, $options = '')
{
$this->some_function_below($city, $area, $outlet, $options);
}
Another alternative solution.
You can use URI segments. For an url like http://www.mysite.com/[city]/[area]/[outlet-name]
<?php
$this->uri->segment(3); // city
$this->uri->segment(4); // area
$this->uri->segment(5); // outlet-name
?>
and so on... See http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/uri.html for more details.
I'm new to CodeIgniter and going to be using it for building a sort of reusable application with multiple instances of an application. For example, each instance of the application will have an id "12345", and inside that instance, there will be entry IDs of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, etc.
to do this, I think I will want to be able to using Routing to set up something like:
http://example.com/12345/Entry/Details/1
Where this URI will go to the Details page of the Entry of ID=1, inside application ID 12345. This would be a different group of entries from a url of, say, /12346/Entry/Details/1. Is this a routing rule that needs to be set up, and if so, can someone please provide an example of how this could be configured, and then how I would be able to use 12345, and 1, inside of the function. Thanks so much for your help, in advance.
My suggestion would be that you route your urls like this:
$route['(:any)/{controller_name}/(:any)/(:any)'] = '{controller_name}/$2/$3/$1';
so that the last parameter for the function is always the id of the app (12345/12346). Doing this means that your Entry controller functions will look like this:
class Entry extends CI_Controller
{
function Details(var1, var2, ..., varn, app_id){}
function Someother_Function (var 1, app_id){}
}
you will also need to add a route for functions that don't have anything but the app_id:
$route['(:any)/{controller_name}/(:any)'] = '{controller_name}/$2/$1'; //This may work for everything.
I hope this is what you we're asking...
Edit:
If you are only going to be using numbers you could use (:num) instead of (:any)
You can achieve a routing like that by adding this rule to the application/config/routes.php file:
$route['default_controller'] = "yourdefaultcontroller";
$route['404_ovverride'] = "";
// custom route down here:
$route['(:num)/entry/details/(:num)'] = "entry/details/$1/$2",
of course assuming your URI to be like the example.
In your controller "Entry" you'll have a method "details" which takes 2 parameters, $contestID and $photoID, where $contestID is the unique instance you're assigning, while $photoID is the other (assumed) variable of your url (last segment).
class Entry extends CI_Controller(
{
function details {$contestID, $photoID)
{ //do your codeZ here }
}
See URI routing for more info on that. You might also want to consider the __remap() overriding function, in case.
I have a CakePHP website and navigaton links are stored in database. What i want is for some navigation entries to call custom function which will return some additional, dynamic data about the link: I want to add a count of articles for link "Vacancies". I could call a function on a model that would return total count. This link is to be rendered on every page.
So i need to get appropriate models instance, but not for the current request, but the request where url points to.
So basically i have url "/en/vacancies". I can get controller name by:
$urlInfo = Router::parse("/en/vacancies");
$controllerName = $urlInfo['controller'];
What would be the reliable way to do that?
Any other solutions for the problem are welcome.
Assuming you have the method to gather the navigation link data in a Model.
App::import('Controller', $controllerName);
$controller = new $controllerName;
$controller->loadModel('YourModel');
$yourModel = $controller->YourModel;
$yourData = $yourModel->your_method();
There are a variety of other ways to do this. But, without knowing more about where you're actually going to be calling this function I can't really provide anymore suggestions.