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Strange URL behaviour - El Forum - 05-06-2009
[eluser]philstan[/eluser]
I am developping a project for a client in CI for the first time and I love it. However, I am having a problem with some very strange and inconsistent behavior in the URLs of one page.
My view page has this simple line of code:
<a href="<?base_url();?>opportunities/newpost"><?php echo img('assets/images/new_post_button.gif');?></a>
Which points to this function in the Controller:
function newpost()
{
$data['title'] = "Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities New Posts";
$data['header'] = "Company Name";
$main_data['h1_title'] = "Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities - New Post";
$data['main'] = $this->load->view('opportunities/newpost_view',$main_data, TRUE);
$this->load->view('template', $data);
}
This SOMETIMES results in this:
http://.../opportunities/opportunities/opportunities/opportunities/opportunities/newpost
depending on how many time the new_post_button.gif is clicked.
As I said, this occurs sometimes and seems to have something to do with a forward slash after "opportunities". In other words this:
/opportunities/ (with forward slash) seems to cause the problem but /opportunities (without forward slash)
Thank you for your help
Strange URL behaviour - El Forum - 05-07-2009
[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
The URL for your button is probably relative, and not absolute. Try suffixing a forward slash. So "opportunities/newpost" would become "/opportunities/newpost". Also, you could load the URL helper and use site_url to generate the URL (please see the [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/url_helper.html"]user guide documentation on the URL helper[/url]).
Strange URL behaviour - El Forum - 05-07-2009
[eluser]philstan[/eluser]
Thank you.
I used the URL helper and anchor() format. I has cured the problem.