Codeigniter routing to an href id - codeigniter

Question

I've made a one-page design and would like to route somesite.com/contact to somesite.com/index.php#contact. I'm using a href id's and div id's. But none of the routes i make seems to be working.
examples:
$route['contact'] = "pagescontroller/index#contact";
$route['contact'] = "base_url('#contact')";
How could i make this work?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You will need to use the # so the browser knows you are going to a part of the page. If you really want to remove it, you could use it as a parameter for the controllermethod you use to display your page and use javascript to go the that specific id on your page.
I would not do that since you will reload your page every time you click on a link. (Unless you use javascript to suppress that as well and go to the relevant ID.)
You could however use mod_rewrite in .htaccess for removing the index.php from your url. So your url's will look like http://example.com/#about
My .htaccess-file for codeigniter is this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>