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[quote author="treeface" date="1278850680"]
Code:
$route['([a-zA-Z0-9]{7})'] = "mycontroller/get_something_by_id/$1";
That should do it. Get 7 alphanumeric characters, regardless of case, capture them (later referred to as '$1'), and redirect it to the uri of your choice. I only did a little bit of testing, but it seems to work.
Something you may want to think about first: what happens when you put together a "product" controller and forget that "product" is 7 characters long? You might want to have your short URLs with something like "s/([a-zA-Z0-9]{7})" such that it looks like "s/fH4J80x".[/quote]
Ah, I don't know what I did wrong but that works, and the whole products thing isn't a worry as the category stuff is restricted to only alpha characters and not numeric so only thing that has alphanumeric is the shorturl.
