I would like all my URLs in codeigniter to start with the first URI segment to be passed to the controller as a parameter.
Here is my use case:
For the url: http://www.example.com/site/page/1
The "Site" would be a parameter passed to the controller "page", "1" is also a parameter (and anything after it).
Would a Mod_Rewrite be more appropriate than codeigniter routing?
You can write it in routes for particular page like
$route['site/page/(:num)'] = 'page/site/$1';
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I have a PHP CodeIgniter Controller with name index and have a method that get details of id kode ($kode) using API get method.
Now when i need to show kode data for example for id AALI
I call this URL
http://www.example.com/?q=AALI
My target
How to make user data accessible by next URLs
http://www.example.com/AALI
I've try using function _remap on code Igniter, but it still wont work.
Have a look at Codeigniter URLs
As per your statement, your controller name is index and there would be an index function in your controller which renders the default view. it means you have changed default_controller to index in your Config.php
Now if you read the link above about Codeigniter URLs, there is a way to get data which passed in the URL after "/" You have to load url helper you can either autoload(recommended) it or load it in your constructor or Controller as per your convenience
Then you can just type
$param=$this->uri->segment(2); // in case your URL is http://www.example.com/AALI
The first segment is controller itself, The second is the function if your url is complete and the third is the parameter in CI URL structure but if you are not providing function name the first segment will always be your controller . So the second is your parameter. Just save it in a variable and do what you like.
I'm trying to retrieve string as parameter using following URL scheme:
www.myapp.com/[String]
Is there any way I can do this?
*Based on my research, Codeigniter doesn't accept string parameters unless I include the Controller's name in URL: www.myapp.com/[Controller Name]/[String]
But this doesn't solve my problem :(
You're right, CI requires controller name at URI, but You can use default_controller.
At config/routes.php add route rule $routes['(:any)'] = 'welcome/index';, remove index.php from Your URL (there're many tutorials and how-to for this), and at last useuriclass at Yourindex()method ofwelcome` controller:
function index(){
var_dump($this->uri->uri_string());
}
I have a template file at ../page/video.phtml and it's served at http://mysite/video.
I want to add params in the url to play different videos on that page. I can add it as a query string param, http://mysite/video?select=filename but I would prefer to use http://mysite/video/filename.
However, when I try this I get a 404. What would I have to do to achieve this?
I'm using Magento 1.7
You must explicitly include all the action parts (route, controller and action) in the URL before adding parameters this way, because when you use http://mysite/video/filename, Magento looks for the index action of the filename controller for the module having a front route named video (which does not exist, hence the 404 error).
From the URL you gave, a working URL would rather look like this : http://mysite/video/index/index/select/filename
I have a tiny application in MVC 3.
In this tiny application, I want my URLs very clear and consistent.
There's just one controller with one action with one parameter.
If no value is provided (that is, / is requested by the browser), then a form is displayed to collect that single value. If a value is provided, a page is rendered.
The only route is this one:
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{account}",
new { controller = "Main", action = "Index", account = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
This all works fine, but the account parameter never appears in the address line as a part of the URL. I can manually type test.com/some_account and it will work, but other than that, the account goes as a post parameter and therefore does not appear. And if I use FormMethods.Get in my form, I get ?account=whatever appended to the URL, which is also not what I want and which goes against my understanding. My understanding was that the MVC framework would try to use parameters set in the route, and only if not found, it would append them after the ?.
I've tried various flavours of setting the routes -- one route with a default parameter, or one route with a required parameter, or two routes (one with a required parameter and one without parameters); I've tried mixing HttpGet/HttpPost in all possible ways; I've tried using single action method with optional parameter string account = null and using two action methods (one with parameter, one without), but I simply can't get the thing appear in the URL.
I have also consulted the Steven Sanderson's book on MVC 3, but on the screenshots there are no parameters either (a details page for Kayak is displayed, but the URL in the address bar is htpp://localhost:XXXX/).
The only thing that definitely works and does what I want is
return RedirectToAction("Index", new { account = "whatever" });
But in order to do it, I have to first check the raw incoming URL and do not redirect if it already contains an account in it, otherwise it is an infinite loop. This seems way too strange and unnecessary.
What is the correct way to make account always appear as a part of the URL?
My understanding was that the MVC framework would try to use
parameters set in the route, and only if not found, it would append
them after the ?
Your understanding is not correct. ASP.NET MVC doesn't append anything. It's the client browser sending the form submission as defined in the HTML specification:
The method attribute of the FORM element specifies the HTTP method used
to send the form to the processing agent. This attribute may take two
values:
get: With the HTTP "get" method, the form data set is appended to the URI specified by the action attribute (with a question-mark ("?")
as separator) and this new URI is sent to the processing agent.
post: With the HTTP "post" method, the form data set is included in the body of the form and sent to the processing agent.
ASP.NET MVC routes are used to parse an incoming client HTTP request and redispatch it to the corresponding controller actions. They are also used by HTML helpers such as Html.ActionLink or Html.BeginForm to generate correct routes. It's just that for your specific scenario where you need to submit a user entered value as part of the url path (not query string) the HTML specification has nothing to offer you.
So, if you want to fight against the HTML specification you will have to use other tools: javascript. So you could use GET method and subscribe to the submit handler of the form and inside it manipulate the url so the value that was appended after the ? satisfy your requirements.
Don't think of this as ASP.NET MVC and routes and stuff. Think of it as a simple HTML page (which is what the browser sees of course) and start tackling the problem from that side. How would you in a simple HTML page achieve this?
We are using Asp.net MVC, one of our requirement is to put '#' in the url something like
www.xyz.com/a-to-b/#date
i have registered the route below, it works fine for 'to' in the url but using # before the date i get a null data back. Is '#' some special character and required a different treatment.??
routes.MapRoute(
"routename",
"{origin}-to-{destination}/#{outDate}",
new
{
controller = "Home",
action = "ActionName",
});
The hash value (string starting from #) will never be sent to server. If you need access to the hash value you can use the following approach - How to get Url Hash (#) from server side .
Also it seems to me that you need to implement some kind of ajax navigation with history support. If I'm right then check this article - http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2010/04/08/jquery-asp.net-and-browser-history.aspx