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BigJobbies
BigJobbies

Reputation: 4343

Codeigniter Route Issues

Im wondering if someone could help me out.

Currently to view a users profile in my codeigniter app, the url is as follows:

http://www.website.com/profile/u/username

I would like to change this to read

http://www.website.com/username

Is this possible using routes? if so could someone give me a bit of advice how to do it?

Also, if someone signs up a username that is the same as a controller name, what would happen then?

Cheers,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 236

Answers (2)

Kokil
Kokil

Reputation: 600

this link could help you : http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/186025/

you can do as it said.

or

you must use apache rewrite module and use .htaccess first

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|forums|images|css|downloads|jquery|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
and delete index.php from applications/config/config.php

$config['index_page'] = "index.php"; and route with

$route['^(?=[^\s]*?[0-9])(?=[^\s]*?[a-zA-Z])[a-zA-Z0-9]*$'] = "user/$1";`

Upvotes: 0

J. Bruni
J. Bruni

Reputation: 20492

1. Is this possible using routes?

Yes.

2. If so could someone give me a bit of advice how to do it?

Sure: $route['(:any)'] = "profile/u/$1";

More info: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html

3. Also, if someone signs up a username that is the same as a controller name, what would happen then?

You should not allow an user to sign up using a username like that. Facebook does this! (www.facebook.com/groups/123457890 = "groups" can't be used as username)

To avoid that an access to a controller is routed into a profile access, you should add a routing config prior to the one mentioned above, like this:

$route['(admin|groups|signup)'] = "$1";

Here we have a regular expression, easy to understand. You just need to separate your controller names with the vertical bar character.

I hope this helps!

Upvotes: 3

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