URL Rewriting: Name instead of ID

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Exactly the same way as you do now.

I assume you have a controller called "authors" with a method called "show", that uses the parameter (the number) to lookup a record. So you can do:

Code:

if ( is_number($parameter) )
{
    $result = $this->author_model->get_by_id( $parameter );
}
else
    $result = $this->author_model->get_by_name ( $parameter );
}

If you want the URL to change, then you can do a redirect to the name after get_by_id() is succesful.