Accessing dynamic links in the format of domain.com/<dynamic_page_name>

I am using code Igniter for my PHP project. I want to give provision in my site such that users can create new pages of their own, and access them directly from www.domain.com/<their_page_name>.

But, my developers have raised a concern that, 1000's of dynamic links that are presented in the format of domain.com/<page_name> is "not good for site's performance". For some 10-15 pages, it is fine. But, beyond that, it would effect the site's performance.

So, they proposed that the URL format should be like www.domain.com/something/page_name (here, 'something' is the controller name)

But, I really can't sacrifice my framework nor my requirement. Is there any way that I can achieve the format of "www.domain.com/<page_name>" without effecting the site's performance?

Thanks a lot for the help

What could possibly work is, to have a special subdomain for yhose user created pages, so your URLs would be user.domain.com/page_name and then use mod_rewrite to rewrite user.domain.com/page_name to www.domain.com/userpagecontroller/page_name

Then you don't need checks if that page_name is in fact a user created page, or some other page.

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Thnks a lot for the reply.

But, is it possible to altogether hide the controller name in the URL and access it directly from domain.com/page_name ?

Well, you could make routes for every page name as well.

PHP Code:

$route["page_name1"] = "controller/page_name1";
$route["page_name2"] = "controller/page_name2";
// and so on... 


But, then each time you add/delete/update a page controller or method, you will have to update the routes. But would still be a better solution than my previous suggestion. I was probably drunk then.

Edit: of course if you have a lot of those pages stored in the database, and you want to have it dynamic, you can easily extend the router and make dynamic routes for those pages this way.

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hahaha...got it...thanks a lot man