Please can any one suggest how to shorten the url
http://localhost:8080/MyWebApp/index.php/Cpanel_control/
to
http://localhost:8080/MyWebApp/Cpanel
in Codeigniter using routes.
I tried it in this way
$route['Cpanel'] = "MyWebApp/index/Cpanel_control";
But did not work
To remove index.php from your url in CI, you need .htaccess file.
Check this out https://gist.github.com/philipptempel/4226750
I'm assuming Cpanel_control is a valid controller.
For the routing, you can have this in your routes settings
$route['Cpanel'] = "Cpanel_control";
To avoid any other issues, make sure base_url in config file is set thus
$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost:8080/MyWebApp";
New Approach
Routing:
In some instances, however, you may want to remap this relationship so
that a different class/method can be called instead of the one
corresponding to the URL.
A short excerpt from the CI doc shows that you can't use routing here. Instead you should go for a mod_rewrite rule (.htaccess)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index/Cpanel_control/(.*) Cpanel/$1 [R]
Old approach
According to the corresponding documentation, the paths are both not absolute. Furthermore, you need to set the "from"-URI as the array key and the "to" URI as the string. If you want to route index/Cpanel_control to Cpanel, you need to swap the URIs of you example.
So this would be correct:
$route['index/Cpanel_control'] = "Cpanel";
Related
Is it possible to change the collections page urls from https://www.product.com/collections/view/14e92dd34fb680e94c02e9ebd2ce36b29e92fd8a-*4*75 this like below http://www.product.com/larimar-jewelry/abril-necklace we do not want any random text in the urls. in codeigniter
You can set your alias in application/config/routes.php
$route['alias-value'] = 'controller/method';
refer documentation here
Otherwise you can do this with rewrite rule using .htaccess file.
Please refer doc
I have a page that has this category URL website.com/category/view/honda-red-car and I just want it to say http://website.com/honda-red-car no html or php and get rid of the category view in the URL.. this website has been done using the CodeIgniter framework..
also this product view URL website.com/product/details/13/honda-accord-red-car
and I want it to be website.com/honda-accord-red-car PLEASE HELP!!!
I cannot find correct instructions on what I am doing wrong??
In Routes.php you need to create one like so
$route['mycar'] = "controller_name/function_name";
So for your example it would be:
$route['honda-red-car] = "category/view/honda-red-car";
Take a look into the URI Routing part of the user guide.
If you have concrete set of urls that you want to route then by adding rules to the application/config/routes.php you should be able to achieve what you want.
If you want some general solution (any uri segment can be a product/details page) then you might need to add every other url explicitly to the routes.php config file and set up a catch-all rule to route everything else to the right controller/method. Remember to handle 404 urls too!
Examples:
Lets say the /honda-red-car is something special and you want only this one to be redirected internally you write:
$routes['honda-red-car'] = 'product/details/13/honda-accord-red-car';
If you want to generalize everything that starts with the honda- string you do:
$routes['(honda-.*)'] = 'product/details_by_slug/$1'; // imaginary endpoint
These rules are used inside a preg_replace() call passing in the key as the pattern, and the value as the replace string, so the () are for capture groups, $1 for placing the capture part.
Be careful with the patterns, if they are too general they might catch every request coming in, so:
$routes['(.*)'] = 'product/details_by_slug/$1';
While it would certainly work for any car name like suzuki-swift-car too it would catch the ordinary root url, or the product/details/42 request too.
These rules are evaulated top to bottom, so start with specific rules at the top and leave general rules at the end of the file.
I've build a set of mod_rewrite rules but I have a problem.
For example, I have the following url rewritten: http://dummydomain.com/category/something.html that points to http://dummydomain.com/index.php?page=category&thing=something. If I put GET params in the first url I don't get them in my php program. How can I tweak this?
Add the [QSA] ("query string append") flag at the end of your rules.
I have a url eg. www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9 , where the user_id field maps to one of the pk in the user table . I don't want the url to be like this , instead i want to have a url like www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla.i am using apache 2 and I understand that mod-rewrite module has sets of rewriting rules which can be used to create url alias.
My question is
I have all href in the form www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9. So to change the url I suppose i have to change all the href's to the www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla and for rewriting the rule do a query to get a record?
Is there a better solution .
No, mod_rewrite does not have sets of rewriting rules. It rather provides directives to build rules based on regular expression patterns that can be combined with additional conditions.
In your case you would build a rule that takes any requested URL path that starts with /user/ and has another path segment following and rewrites it internally to your user.php, like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/user/([^/]+)$ /user.php?name=$1
The first directive RewriteEngine on is just to enable mod_rewrite. And the second directive RewriteRule … is the rule as described above: ^/user/([^/]+)$ is the pattern that matches any URL path that starts with /user/ (i.e. ^/user/) and that is followed by one path segment (i.e. ([^/]+)$). That request is then rewritten internally to /user.php while the matched path segment behind the /user/ is used as a parameter value for the name parameter ($1 is a reference to the matched value of the first group denoted with (…)).
So this will rewrite a request of /user/Aditya-Shukla internally to /user.php?name=Aditya-Shukla. You can then use that user name and look it up in your table.
You can either add a RewriteRule that will rewrite user/Aditya-Shukla to user.php?user_name=Aditya-Shukla and handle the rest in your code.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ user.php?user_name=$1
Or using a RewriteMap directive to lookup usernames, which will allow to rewrite user/Aditya-Shukla directly to user.php?user_id=9
I presume that within your own site you will always create the canonical form of the URL, i.e.:
/user/Aditya-Shukla
...and you are just having to deal with outside links that are not in canonical form, i.e. "old links" like:
www.example.com/user.php?user_id=9
mod_rewrite may not be suitable for remapping in this situation. I am presuming you may have very many users, and that number may grow. mod_rewrite does have a RewriteMap directive and yes there are ways to generate your map dynamically, but I don't think that would be a good design (to dynamically create a map of userId-to-userName dynamically every time your rewrite rule matches...)
Instead you should simply write your user.php code to lookup the correct userName, assemble the canonical form of URL you want, and send a redirect back to the client. Something like:
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.example.com/user/Aditya-Shukla" );
You should probably also use a 301 redirect (instead of 302) to indicate this is a "permanent" URL change, which will help search bots index your site correctly if it encounters an "old style" URL out there.
-broc
How can push a URI like this in CodeIgniter (1.7.1 currently):
example.com/seg1/seg2/seg3/seg4/
or
example.com/seg1/seg2/
etc. through a single class method in a controller whose name does not appear in the URI? In a regular PHP scenario I would use mod_rewrite something like this:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ myfile.php?one=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ myfile.php?one=$1&two=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ myfile.php?one=$1&two=$2&three=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ myfile.php?one=$1&two=$2&three=$3&four=$4 [L]
(I sanitize and validate the segments extensively in PHP, returning 404 if invalid)
But in Codeigniter I can't figure out how to do this without hard coding at least the first segment, but then using custom routes it still wants to treat the subsequent segments as method calls.
I'm a newbie to CI, but have so far managed to port over the entire existing site with the exception of this part of it. I don't see how all the parts come together on this problem, so any suggestion is welcome.
Clarification: I read through documentation on URI library, routing etc before starting my project, and they were helpful for various things, but this specific problem is not addressed by any of them. I'm not seeing how all segments of the URI can essentially be funneled through a controller that is not named in the URI and where all segments are arbitrary. The routing examples assume you know the value of the first segment. I already know how to remove "index.php" as well as access segments.
Have you looked up URI routing in the user guide and the wiki? They should tell you almost anything about routing, rewriting and accessing the different URI segments.
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/uri.html
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mod_rewrite/
[Edit:]
Here's the long description:
There is no way to not "hard-code" the first segment, and you can still "hard-code" the second segment.
What you want to accomplish can be nearly done by editing the routes in system/application/config/routes.php:
$route['(:any)'] = 'your_default_controller/index/$1';
$route['default_controller'] = "your_default_controller";
So, the first segment of your URI will be the method of the controller. You can access all segments of your (initial) URI by
$this->uri->segment(n)
You would then use the method index to call the desired function for each request.
On a side note: Why do you want to use an MVC framework for that, as you do not use much of the benefits of MVC?