Question About Data Structure and URLs

[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
The URI convention is 'controller/function/id', so that would translate in your example to 'product/category/name'

So you see you have a Product controller, category method, and the third param is the name of the specific requested category. So no, you don't need a method for every single category.

You can use routes to knock off the first part of the URI:

Code:

$route['category/(.*)'] = "product/category/$1";

Then, your URIs look like http://www.example.com/category/shoes