codeigniter url segments containing leading slash - php

Question

the url to access the method is like this:
http://localhost/site/cont/method
I want to access this method using GET method like this:
http://localhost/new-tera/paper/lookup_doi/segment but my segment part is already containing /like this:
http://localhost/lookup_doi/segment/containing/slashes
note that the whole segment/containing/slashes is one value.
I am getting this value in my method like this:
public function method ($variable)
{
echo $variable;
}
//output: segment
and not : segment/containing/slashes

Answer 1

CodeIgniter passes the rest of them as additional arguments. You can either specify the additional arguments (if the number is fixed) or use:
implode('/', func_get_args())
to get the entire string.

Answer 2

.htaccess mast be
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?route=$1 [L,QSA]
so ok...
$route = empty($_GET['route']) ? '' : $_GET['route'];
$exp = explode('/', $route);
results:
$exp[0] = new-tera
$exp[1] = paper
$exp[2] = lookup_doi
$exp[3] = segment
and so we mast be have routing! run example(with my projects):
if($exp[0] == '')
{
$file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/controllers/controller_index.php';
}
else
{
$file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .'/controllers/controller_'.$exp[0].'.php';
}
if(!file_exists($file))
{
engine :: away();
}
include_once $file;
$class = (empty($exp[0]) or !class_exists($exp[0])) ? 'class_index' : $exp[0];
$controller = new $class;
$method = (empty($exp[1]) or !method_exists($controller, $exp[1])) ? 'index' : $exp[1];
$controller -> $method();

Answer 3

you can add slashes by adding "%2F" in your query string hope this will work
segment = 'somethingwith%2F'
http://localhost/new-tera/paper/lookup_doi/segment

Answer 4

You can base64 encode it first and decode it after. Really, you can use a variety of methods to change the / to something else (i.e. a -) and change it back.
echo site_url('controller/method/' . base64_encode($variable));
public function method ($variable)
{
$variable = base64_decode($variable);
}