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Lewis Hill
Lewis Hill

Reputation: 35

Sending GET value to URL without parameters and extra characters?

I'm currently working on a CodeIgniter application but I need the search functionality to be more readable, for both humans and CodeIgniter.

Here's what I currently get as the URL when submitting the form.

http://mydomain.com/search/?query=batman

And here's what I'm looking to end up with.

http://mydomain.com/search/batman

I'm not great with mod rewrites, but I imagine that's the route I'll need to take?

Thanks for any help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 127

Answers (4)

Albzi
Albzi

Reputation: 15609

Not a very nice method but:

What if you make it a POST and put the variable into a separate controller. eg search($s)

public function search($s){
    header('Location:http://yoursite.com/whatever/search/'. $s);
}

This should give you the result you need.

Upvotes: 0

Glad To Help
Glad To Help

Reputation: 5387

You can capture the onsubmit() event with javascript and then redirect to the url you want..

$('#myform').on('submit', function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    var value = $('#input').val()
    window.location = 'http://mydomain.com/search/' + value;
})

Of course, your controller will have to look like this:

class Search extends CI_Controller
{
   public function index($term)
   {
      // code code
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Nil'z
Nil'z

Reputation: 7475

First change the form method to POST and in your search function you can then do something like this:

function search(){
    if( $this->input->post(null) ){
        $keyword    = $this->input->post('keyword');
        #do you processing with the post
    }else{
        $keyword    = $this->uri->segment(3);
    }

    #for pagination
    $config['base_url']     = base_url()."controller/search/".$keyword."/page/";
    $config['uri_segment']  = 5;
}

Upvotes: 0

ProGM
ProGM

Reputation: 7108

You should use mod_rewrite, creating a script .htaccess in your script path:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?query=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Take a look to mod_rewrite docs for more infos http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Upvotes: 1

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