This is my first time getting my hands dirty with CI so I'm getting a little confused.
I'm wanting to accomplish a couple things with my question. First of all, I'd like to always use the default controller without having it to appear in the url. For example, I created a new class named after my site (Example.php) and that works fine. However, if I want to call the search function in my controller I then have to go to example.com/index.php/example/search/.
The second thing I want to accomplish is when I run a search I'll get a nice looking url like so: example.com/search/This+is+a+search (I haven't gotten to removing the index.php portion but I know to use a htaccess). I'm not worried about the actual mechanics of the search, just that I'd like to format the url in this way.
I originally experimented with using a Search class but that found that it doesn't allow me put the search in the url because the second parameter should be a function and not the extra stuff.
Thanks for any help.
In application/config/routes.php file add $route to redirect everything to your controller.
Something like this:
$route['([^\/]+)'] = 'content/index/$1';
$route['([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)'] = 'content/index/$1/$2';
This will redirect urls like example.com/A and example.com/A/B to a controller named content. Parameters A and B will be passed to method index.
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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 have a problem with Codeigniter routes. I would like to all registered users on my site gets its own "directory", for example: www.example.com/username1, www.example.com/username2. This "directory" should map to the controller "polica", method "ogled", parameter "username1".
If I do like this, then each controller is mapped to this route: "polica/ogled/parameter". It's not OK:
$route["(:any)"] = "polica/ogled/$1";
This works, but I have always manually entered info in routes.php:
$route["username1"] = "polica/ogled/username1";
How do I do so that this will be automated?
UPDATE:
For example, I have controller with name ads. For example, if you go to www.example.com/ads/
there will be listed ads. If you are go to www.example.com/username1 there are listed ads by user username1. There is also controller user, profile, latest,...
My Current routes.php:
$route['oglasi'] = 'oglasi';
$route['(:any)'] = "polica/ogled/$1"
$route['default_controller'] = 'domov';
$route['404_override'] = '';
I solved problem with this code:
$route['oglasi/(:any)'] = 'oglasi/$1';
$route['(:any)'] = "polica/ogled/$1"
$route['default_controller'] = 'domov';
$route['404_override'] = '';
Regards, Mario
The problem with your route is that by using :any you match, actually...ANY route, so you're pretty much stuck there.
I think you might have two solutions:
1)You can selectively re-route all your sites controller individually, like:
$route['aboutus'] = "aboutus";
$route['where-we-are'] = "whereweare";
//And do this for all your site's controllers
//Finally:
$route['(:any)'] = "polica/ogled/$1";
All these routes must come BEFORE the ANY, since they are read in the order they are presented, and if you place the :any at the beginning it will happily skip all the rest.
EDIT after comment:
What I mean is, if you're going to match against ANY segment, this means that you cannot use any controller at all (which is, by default, the first URI segment), since the router will always re-route you using your defined law.
In order to allow CI to execute other controllers (whatever they are, I just used some common web pages, but can be literally everything), you need to allow them by excluding them from the re-routing. And you can achieve this by placing them before your ANY rule, so that everytime CI passed through your routing rules it parses first the one you "escaped", and ONLY if they don't match anything it found on the URL, it passes on to the :ANY rule.
I know that this is a code verbosity nonetheless, but they'll surely be less than 6K as you said.
Since I don't know the actual structure of your URLs and of your web application, it's the only solution that comes to my mind. If you provide further information, such as how are shaped the regular urls of your app, then I can update my answer
/end edit
This is not much a pratical solution, because it will require a lot of code, but if you want a design like that it's the only way that comes to my mind.
Also, consider you can use regexes as the $route index, but I don't think it can work here, as your usernames are unlikely matchable in this fashion, but I just wanted to point out the possibility.
OR
2) You can change your design pattern slightly, and assign another route to usernames, something along the line of
$route['user/(:any)'] = "polica/ogled/$1";
This will generate quite pretty (and semantic) URLs nonetheless, and will avoid all the hassle of escaping the other routes.
view this:
http://www.web-and-development.com/codeigniter-minimize-url-and-remove-index-php/
which includes remove index.php/remove 1st url segment/remove 2st url sigment/routing automatically.it will very helpful for you.
I was struggling with this same problem very recently. I created something that worked for me this way:
Define a "redirect" controller with a remap method. This will allow you to gather the requests sent to the contoller with any proceeding variable string into one function. So if a request is made to http://yoursite/jeff/ or http://yoursite/jamie it won't hit those methods but instead hit http://yoursite/ remap function. (even if those methods/names don't exist and even if you have an index function, it supersedes it). In the _Remap method you could define a conditional switch which then works with the rest of your code re-directing the user any way you want.
You should then define this re-direct controller as the default one and set up your routes like so:
$route['(.*)'] = "redirect/index/$1";
$route['default_controller'] = "redirect";
This is at first a bit of a problem because this will basically force everything to be re-directed to this controller no matter what and ultimately through this _remap switch.
But what you could do is define the rules/routes that you don't want to abide to this condition above those route statements.
i.e
$route['myroute'] = "myroute";
$route['(.*)'] = "redirect/index/$1";
$route['default_controller'] = "redirect";
I found that this produces a nice system where I can have as many variable users as are defined where I'm able to redirect them easily based on what they stand for through one controller.
Another way would be declaring an array with your intenal controllers and redirect everything else to the user controller like this in your routes.php file from codeigniter:
$controllers=array('admin', 'user', 'blog', 'api');
if(array_search($this->uri->segment(1), $controllers)){
$route['.*'] = "polica/ogled/$1";
}
I am using CodeIgniter. In my script, I am changing $config['index_page'] in config.php file as per the user's reponse, i.e, dynamic index_page is used. In order to get it work, I have changed the $config['uri_protocol'] value to "AUTO".
Everything is working fine except when the case comes like : domain.com/index_page/auth/register?testvar=1
It's not accepting the get variables and "PAGE NOT FOUND" error is there. I have tried several things already discussed here, but they involve changing the uri_protocol to "PATH_INFO" that I can't change as the site stops working. It requires "REQUEST_URI" to work properly which is exactly the case with "AUTO" setting.
So is there, any way to get it working???
Any help would be appreciated.
Have a look at this answer: Handling question mark in url in codeigniter it will require you to override the core URI class whenever you are accepting QUERY_STRING and inject your logic there.
Have you read this: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html ?
You pass vars like this:
domain.com/index_page/auth/register/1
The first segment represents the
controller class that should be
invoked.
The second segment represents
the class function, or method, that
should be called.
The third, and any
additional segments, represent the ID
and any variables that will be passed
to the controller.
Also you can do it your way, read the reference. But than why to use a framework at all?
I've done the same thing in my project and I got the url like
mydomain.com/search/?name=Arun+David&age=23
To achieve this,
In config file set
$config['uri_protocol']='PATH_INFO'; or $config['uri_protocol']='ORIG_PATH_INFO';
if PATH_INFO is not working try using ORIG_PATH_INFO. For me in localhost PATH_INFO is woking but not ORIG_PATH_INFO but while uploading it in server ORIG_PATH_INFO in working but not PATH_INFO.
and in your search controller's constructer add
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],$_GET);
then you can use $_GET['name'] and $_GET['age'] in your code!.!. :-)
I'm using a web application project.
I have a folder in my web root called Users and in the folder I have a page called UserList.aspx
What I want to be able to do is type in Response.Redirect(Users.UserList.URL)
What I reckon I can probably do is create a class that extends Page and add a static property called URL that calls MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod().ReflectedType (I think this works haven't tested) and then have that convert Users.UserList -> ~/Users/UserList.aspx
The problems with this method that I know of are one I need to go through every page and make it extend the base class and it doesn't work with any pages that contain a '-' character.
The advantages are that if pages are moved around then there aren't any broken links (Resharper gives out when there is a Page with the wrong namespace).
Also then every individual page that takes query string params could have a static method so that if I want to add/remove params I can see what uses those params etc.
Also if I want to call that page I don't have to check the name of the params e.g. UserId userId, Id or id. So that would look something like Users.ViewUser.GetUrl(1) -> ~/Users/ViewUser.aspx?UserId=1
So the question is: Is there a better way of doing this? Or is this a bad idea in principal?
You could just create an extension method for the base Page class that does what you are thinking. That would avoid having to go back and modify the base class for all your pages.
There is a better way. Create a traffic cop that knows about paths. Then if paths change, your data model changes or other stuff you just change that one place. Plus you could have read from a config file and make changes at run time.
Thus your call looks like this:
Repose.Redirect(TrafficCop["Users.UserList"].URL)
or some other way if you don't like the syntax.
The MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod().ReflectedType doesn't work so I came up with another method of doing this using generics.
Instead of Users.ViewUser.GetUrl() or Users.ViewUser.URL it's GetUrl()
For a page with parameters it's still Users.ViewUser.GetUrl(1), it isn't ideal because they should both have the same way of being called but better than strings I guess.
Going to leave the question open for a while just in case.
edidt: I think I will actually just create another method called GetUrl(String getQuery) because if I have two parameters that are of the same type it doesn't work very well.
further edit: I found out how to do exactly what I want to do.
created a class called BasePage:Page where T : Page
on that are the static methods redirect and geturl
each page inherits from the base page as follows: MyPage:BasePage
Any page can redirect to that page by using the command MyPage.Redirect();
I'm having a little trouble with a CodeIgniter route when there is a query (stuff after the ?) in the URI. I know it is good practice to replace queries with routes in CI, but I'm importing in a premade messageboard that already does everything with queries. This is my route:
$route['messageboard/:any'] = "messageboard/index";
Any in this case refers to a script name. So if it's messageboard/admin.php, I have it load a view that loads my premade messageboard's script "admin.php". It's working just fine if I do messageboard/admin.php. It does fine if I do messageboard/admin.php?. If I put a parameter into the query, however, the route won't correctly send the user to the messageboard controller, and instead sends them to a 404. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? I would be eternally grateful. Thanks!
Okay guys, I solved it. I needed to change three things. The first was mtvee's suggestion, which lets it read query strings. The second one you're going to want to change the $config['permitted_uri_chars'] in the config file to include an equals sign, since it starts off disabled and all query strings will be of the for ?a=34 or something like that. The third is you need to go to $config['uri_protocol'] and change it from AUTO to PATH_INFO. Once I did those, it worked.
I'm sure the syntax is:
$route['messageboard/(:any)'] = "messageboard/index"; //<-- notice brackets
and not
$route['messageboard/:any'] = "messageboard/index";
I believe CI doesn't do GET out of the box. Check out Enabling Query Strings here http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/urls.html