CodeIgniter Forums
URI Routing - Printable Version

+- CodeIgniter Forums (https://forum.codeigniter.com)
+-- Forum: Archived Discussions (https://forum.codeigniter.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=20)
+--- Forum: Archived Development & Programming (https://forum.codeigniter.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=23)
+--- Thread: URI Routing (/showthread.php?tid=22140)



URI Routing - El Forum - 08-30-2009

[eluser]m40[/eluser]
I'd like to use URLs like www.example.com/item/123/ where 123 is the item ID.

I can think of 2 approaches:
1) having a controller named item and a function inside of it for each item; this, of course, is an awful approach;
2) using routing - something like $route['item/(: num)'] = "items/view/$1";;

I was wondering if a more elegant approach is available.

Thanks!


URI Routing - El Forum - 08-30-2009

[eluser]MARKNEUBURGER[/eluser]
I had a similar problem and went with your second idea.