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[eluser]cjobes[/eluser]
Looking back at the tutorial, I found some problems that may be causing the confusion, but I'm still a bit confused in the end.

Here are a few things I have found:
In the News section of the tutorial you are given the code to create a table in the database you created for the tutorial. You are also asked to create a few "seed" records. In my table I created three records like this:
Record 1
Title: New TitleOne
Slug: News SlugOne
Text: News One Txt

Record 2
Title: New TitleTwo
Slug: News SlugTwo
Text: News Two Txt

Record 3
Title: New TitleThree
Slug: News SlugThree
Text: News Three Txt

Later, on the same, page you are given the code to write the News controller. The code for the view looks like this:

Code:

$data['news'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);

Further down the page you are told to add to the view method. Here you need to be careful and actually RE-WRITE the method, rather than add to it. That is what I did, which left the first line using the $data key of 'news', while the new set of code changed it and used 'news_item' as the key instead. The instructions say to add the code, so I naturally thought I needed to add the new code to what I wrote before. Right off the bat there is an error that is so minute to find.

However, after fixing that minor detail, it still did not fix my problem. I kept noticing that my URL, when trying to view a single news item, was not looking right.

The routing code that takes care of this is

Code:

$route['news/(:any)'] = 'news/view/$1';

So the value of the "slug' field in the database is what is being passed to the view method. My address bar was showing the following:

Code:

/index.php/news/News SlugTwo

You can't see it in the code above because this site is removing it, but after "/News" there is a space, and the address bar replaces that space with % 20, and this is what gets passed to the view method. That gets sent to the model, but it can't find such a record, because my record does not have a % 20 as part of the slug value.

To test this I created another entry using a one word string, no spaces. Everything then worked fine. I then took the slug value of the records I first created in the table and removed the space from them. Again, it worked fine.

So the problem is in the way the segment is being interpreted. The confusion is now about how to get around this, which is not covered at all in the tutorial.

C