URI for Community: www.mycommunity.net/membername

[eluser]joytopia[/eluser]
Hello CI-friends,

I am new with CI and I would like to build a community site.

To get the site from a member, the website-visitor should type a URI like this:

www.mycommunity.net/membername

perhaps with aditional parameters:

www.mycommunity.net/membername/param1/param2

My idea was to bend the error-message 404 to a certain controller, which searches in the usertable, if a user exists or not.

Does this make sense and how can I do this?
Any better idea?

Thanks for your help!
Bernd

[eluser]Jay Logan[/eluser]
Edit your routes to have (:any) point to to your member controller. Then in your member controller, do an IF check to see if the member name is valid, ELSE show 404.

[eluser]joytopia[/eluser]
Thank you, J-Slim!
Seems to be simple.

If I want to use some other controllers, i.e. login or sign up, do I have to define them before the (:any) point?

regards, Bernd

[eluser]watonlyme[/eluser]
[quote author="joytopia" date="1252278515"]Thank you, J-Slim!
Seems to be simple.

If I want to use some other controllers, i.e. login or sign up, do I have to define them before the (:any) point?

regards, Bernd[/quote]

Yes, you have to.

[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
You can do that quickly with a single route.

Code:

$route['(signup|register|login|logout|help)'] = "$1";
$route['(:any)'] = "members/$1";

[eluser]joytopia[/eluser]
[quote author="Aken" date="1252327407"]You can do that quickly with a single route.

Code:

$route['(signup|register|login|logout|help)'] = "$1";
$route['(:any)'] = "members/$1";

[/quote]

Thanks for the smart code! I think, with this I would have to put all functions into the member-controller.

Now I have done the additional functions into the controller "go".
The third line is for a numeric member-code, i.e. a member wants to invite s.o. or send him points or another gift.

Code:

$route['go'] = "go";
$route['go/(:any)'] = "go/$1";
$route['(:any)/(:num)'] = "code/code_find/$1/$2";
$route['(:any)'] = "member/member_find/$1";

Regards, Bernd

[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
"members" was just an example.

You always want more specific routes to be first. So with that given example, you'd want 'go/(:any)' to come before 'go'.

Also be careful with this line:

Code:

$route['(:any)/(:num)'] = "code/code_find/$1/$2";

If I were to go to example.com/somewhere/498272, CodeIgniter would route to a url like example.com/code/code_find/somewhere/498272. I don't think you'd want your "somewhere" location included with your code_find function (at least in the URI route).

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
Take a look at the _remap function. http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...#remapping

[eluser]joytopia[/eluser]
[quote author="Aken" date="1252342892"]

Code:

$route['(:any)/(:num)'] = "code/code_find/$1/$2";

If I were to go to example.com/somewhere/498272, CodeIgniter would route to a url like example.com/code/code_find/somewhere/498272. [/quote]

This means:
example.com/membername/498272
will find the gift-code 498272, given from a certain member.

Other functions, like login etc. are called by the "go"- Controller:
example.com/go/login
(or other predefined routings)

[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
Yes, I understand the structure behind it. But look closely at the example URLs I gave. Something tells me you don't want anything but a number in the code_find URL.