Trick to delete controller in query string

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Trick to delete controller in query string - El Forum - 12-01-2008

[eluser]Cahyono[/eluser]
I try to change http://localhost/index.php?c=welcome&m=home into http://localhost/index.php?m=home

So I want to delete c=welcome from URL so that shorter. After trial and error, I found like this:

in file system\application\config\routes.php :

Code:
$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";

in file system\Libraries\Router.php search on function _validate_request($segments):

Code:
// Can't find the requested controller...

show_404($segments[0]);

Add above so become this below:

Code:
$segments[0] = $this->default_controller;

return $segments;

// Can't find the requested controller...

show_404($segments[0]);

That's it. It's work fine to me.

Trick to delete controller in query string - El Forum - 12-01-2008

[eluser]Jelmer[/eluser]
That's by far not the best way to do this, in fact it's a pretty bad one since you'd have to edit your /system/ files on every CI update. Also it's bad because there's a pretty simple way to do the same within the system\application\config\routes.php file.

If I understand you correctly, you want every request to be handled by the same default controller if no controller can be found. While there are I believe even better ways to do this, the way I solved this problem was by first registering all my other controllers and then closing with the default router which is set to 'welcome' by the final rule:

Code:
$route[':any'] = 'welcome';

All the others you'll have to set before that rule by adding them:

Code:
$route['other_controller/(:any)'] = 'other_controller/$1';

Or with 2 rules if you want it to work without the function set as well:

Code:
$route['other_controller/(:any)'] = 'other_controller/$1';

$route['other_controller'] = 'other_controller';

I'll admit it's a bit more work, but keeping the system files without edits will save you many headaches when updating CI to the latest version.

Trick to delete controller in query string - El Forum - 12-01-2008

[eluser]Cahyono[/eluser]
Yes you right. Thanks for your suggestion.

Trick to delete controller in query string - El Forum - 12-02-2008

[eluser]Thorpe Obazee[/eluser]
[quote author="Jelmer" date="1228206340"]That's by far not the best way to do this, in fact it's a pretty bad one since you'd have to edit your /system/ files on every CI update. Also it's bad because there's a pretty simple way to do the same within the system\application\config\routes.php file.

If I understand you correctly, you want every request to be handled by the same default controller if no controller can be found. While there are I believe even better ways to do this, the way I solved this problem was by first registering all my other controllers and then closing with the default router which is set to 'welcome' by the final rule:

Code:
$route[':any'] = 'welcome';

All the others you'll have to set before that rule by adding them:

Code:
$route['other_controller/(:any)'] = 'other_controller/$1';

Or with 2 rules if you want it to work without the function set as well:

Code:
$route['other_controller/(:any)'] = 'other_controller/$1';

$route['other_controller'] = 'other_controller';

I'll admit it's a bit more work, but keeping the system files without edits will save you many headaches when updating CI to the latest version.[/quote]

Could it be done to use one routing rule to get this?

Code:
$route['other_controller/(:any)'] = 'other_controller/$1';

$route['other_controller'] = 'other_controller';