Problem with Routes

[eluser]dootzky[/eluser]
@inparo

I've just spent some time playing and blindly experimenting with the .htaccess line you've given me, and this is interesting, look what I've did:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

#Old urls first
RewriteRule article\.php /domino/article/index/$1 [R=301,L]
# any other old urls here using the same schema

# Now the index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|public|user_guide|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /domino/index.php?/$1 [L]

look how I've edited your "article.php" RewriteRule, and this is what I get now, when I try to type in the URL:

Code:

# THIS IS THE OLD LINK, which acctually doesn't exists anywhere anymore...
http://localhost/domino/article.php?aid=84

I get redirected to:

Code:

http://localhost/domino/article/index/?aid=84

so this is great! if this could work - that would solve my problem, right?
the only "problem" now, is that I still get NULL $article_ID passed to my index function. this is example code:

Code:

function index($id_article)
{
     var_dump($id_article);
}

and I get just "NULL".
that sucks.
if I could get anything -> at least the whole "?aid=84" part, I could easily cut out the needed article ID, but I'm inches away from getting that old $_GET value in CI...

any ideas now?