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Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - armadillo - 11-01-2015
I am having a routing problem that i don't understand , i'm following whats on the documentation, perhaps im not fully understanding how these routes work,
here is the issue, i have an articles Controller which makes use of view_by_slug method, this just grabs a field from the database that instead of having : http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/view/1 in the URLs
i have this:
http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/view_by_slug/first-article
http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/view_by_slug/second-article
..
.
This is the snippet i have on the home page that creates a list of the most recent posts, as you can see it uses view_by_slug/<?php echo $article->slug; ?>
on home.php
PHP Code:
<ul class="row marketing">
<?php foreach ( $articles as $article ) : ?>
<li><h4><?php echo $article->title ?></h4>
<?php echo word_limiter($article->body, 20 ) ; ?>
<p><a href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>articles/view_by_slug/<?php echo $article->slug; ?>">Read More</a></p>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
But i would like to change these URLs:
http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/view_by_slug/first-article
instead of articles/view_by_slug/first-article i would like to change it to :
http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/first-article or
http://localhost/kewlcms/blog/first-article
This is what i have on routes.php, i am including the 2 lines which are the ones i tried so far but im getting 404 not found errors
PHP Code:
$route['articles/view_by_slug/(:any)'] = 'articles/$1' ;
$route['articles/(:any)'] = 'articles/view_by_slug/$1' ;
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - skunkbad - 11-01-2015
Is kewlcms your controller, or your install dir?
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - armadillo - 11-02-2015
(11-01-2015, 09:18 PM)skunkbad Wrote: Is kewlcms your controller, or your install dir?
It's the install dir, i have several subfolders under localhost
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - arma7x - 11-02-2015
Remove line $route['articles/view_by_slug/(:any)'] ='articles/$1':
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - Avenirer - 11-03-2015
Did you try using _remap()? http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html#remapping-method-calls
You can redirect every request to index() so that will serve another method.
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - armadillo - 11-03-2015
(11-02-2015, 12:16 AM)arma7x Wrote: Remove line $route['articles/view_by_slug/(:any)'] ='articles/$1':
That didn't work, don't know why
i tried what the documentation says but still can't get it to work properly
RE: Custom Routing for SEO friendly URLs - arma7x - 11-03-2015
I think the problem is your URI http://localhost/kewlcms/articles/view_by_slug/first-article. 'kewlcms' is always the first segment of your URI. Fire up your apps using PHP built-in webserver with option -t which is your document root, in your case, kewlcms directory.