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Creating dynamic Views - El Forum - 09-01-2007
[eluser]Higher Logic[/eluser]
Here's a scenario:
I have a blog. My URL structure looks like this:
http://www.domain.com/blog/
With CI, I'm going to have a view for this. Then let's say I have an entry:
http://www.domain.com/blog/my-first-post/
I've been trying to think of a way to get a dynamic URL segment (entry title) to be positioned after a view instead of doing something like this:
http://www.domain.com/blog/view/my-first-post/
Normally, I would set this all up like so:
http://www.domain.com/blog/index.php?slug=my-first-post
Where the index.php file would check for the $_GET['slug'] value to determine the post to grab from the database and output, and if no $_GET['slug'] variable existed, it would output the standard blog listing with a list of entries and excerpt of their content.
So my question is, how do you set something like this up with CI without setting up another view?
Creating dynamic Views - El Forum - 09-01-2007
[eluser]alpar[/eluser]
if i get this right, you want to set up a blog made with CI and use it in a bigger site? You put CI in the folder blogs, make a controller called view, and a method called show (you can call it something else), you give one parameter to the method with will be the title of your blog.
then you add
Code:
$route['view/(:any)'] = "view/show/$1"play around with these, i don't say it's working out of the box, but this is one way that you can do it.
Creating dynamic Views - El Forum - 09-01-2007
[eluser]Higher Logic[/eluser]
Ah, that looks like it will do it. Not creating a blog, but that was just a scenario that many have probably seen before.
$route['blog/(:any)'] = "blog/$1";
And if there was not anything, the view for the blog's index would show up.
Edit: Ok, that totally makes sense now and works perfectly. Thanks!