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SkySonny
SkySonny

Reputation: 103

CodeIgniter GET method and SEO friendly URLs

In my web page search input I am using the get method, and the URL is something like this www.example.com/search?city=example&service=example2, but I want a URL like this www.example.com/search/example/example2; how can I convert?

Or maybe there is some other solution to get the data from html inputs and get a friendly URL?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 583

Answers (3)

SkySonny
SkySonny

Reputation: 103

I see others posting about routing, yes i can do like what, but i think first i need to solve problem with html submit action, because when i press the button its auto redirect to what standart format url search?city=example&service=example2, but like i say i need other format. So how i can solve this problem?

My form action

<form method="get" action="http://example.com/search">

Upvotes: 0

Paresh Barad
Paresh Barad

Reputation: 1609

I think its help you and also SEO. Please write following uri rules in : application/config/routes.php

$route['search-(:any)-(:any).html'] = 'search?city=$1&service=$2';

its rewrite your url from www.example.com/search?city=example&service=example2 to www.example.com/search-example-example2.html

Upvotes: 1

Captain Red
Captain Red

Reputation: 1171

In your routes.php file inside the config folder:

$route['search/(:any)'] = 'search/searchFunction'; //You will now need to have a searchFunction() inside the controller search. Or you can just have 'search' and handle the code below inside the index() function.

Now, inside your searchFunction:

function searchFunction()
{
  $city = (isset($this->uri->segment(2))) ? $this->uri->segment(2) : null; //if you have www.example.com/search/example
  
  $service = (isset($this->uri->segment(3))) ? $this->uri->segment(3) : null; //if you have www.example.com/search/example/example2
  
//General Pattern is: www.example.com/uri-segment-1/uri-segment-2/uri-segment-3.....and so on.

  // Now when you are querying, if($city) then 'WHERE city = $city' and so on.
  
  //Also, in the link that was earlier triggering 'www.example.com/search?city=example&service=example2'
  //like <a href='www.example.com/search?city=example&service=example2'>Link</a>
  //Now have it as:
  // <a href='www.example.com/search/example/example2'>Link</a>
  
  
}

Upvotes: 0

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