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[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
[quote author="Takapaka" date="1256694517"]Actually nothing more complex than routing url like:

www.site.com/gifts/users_gifts_public/john/654

(where john would be user name, and 654 his id)

to

www.site.com/john/654[/quote]

You're in luck, I had a strange urge to play with regex

All tested and guaranteed working or your money back

You have two options:

Code:

$route['([a-z_A-Z]+/[0-9]+)'] = "gifts/users_gifts_public/$1";

Before Route: john/654/123/123
After: gifts/users_gifts_public/john/654

Notice the other stuff after gets knocked off, so if you add anything else after you will find 404s or other unexpected behavior.

So what I recommend instead is:

Code:

$route['([a-z_A-Z]+/[0-9]+.+)'] = "pensacola_coupons/test/$1";

Before Route: john/654/123/123
After: gifts/users_gifts_public/john/654/123/123

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Resources for regex in the future: http://www.regular-expressions.info

And any editor that supports regex for search/replace functions. I keep EditPlus around for this, but any that supports regex will do. Much easier and faster to test in an editor than inside PHP script.

Enjoy!