Organising my query strings/code

[eluser]JamieBarton[/eluser]
Hi guys,

Having a bit of difficulty with this one..

I want to be able to go to url.com/events and see a list of all events, however, these can be changed and ordered by date of the event, or alphabetically..

I also want when you go to url.com/city-name, to show all the events that are happening in that city (each event has a event_city_name field), and then be able to organise this by date of event and alphabetically too.. Events can be sorted within their start and end time too..

I can't for the life of me get my head around how to organise this code.

I've thought maybe a bunch of $_GET's, and use query strings, however, even if I do use query strings, I don't know how to organise/start this code...

I originally had an event controller, with date and alphabetically methods inside, which then would have all the events then, but that way means a lot of code which will be duplicated, more queries too.

Surely there is an easier way to organise the code..

Hopefully someone can help me

Would appreciate it very much!

[eluser]steelaz[/eluser]
You could use custom routing - http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...uting.html and route url.com/city to url.com/events/city , although in my opinion url.com/events/city works just as well and provides better description for the page.

[eluser]JamieBarton[/eluser]
Yeah I have that currently now too.

However, it would mean there would be some code duplication in the city and the other methods in the event controller.

Not sure if I should just make all parameters possible that I'll have in the URL and send them to the model, which would then if isset(), do a where statement...

Not sure if that's the best thing to do though....