Create PURL with CI

[eluser]love2code[/eluser]
Hi Guys

I am new to CI and I am just having a play with it.

I want to have a purl type url, currently my url looks like

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/main/index/...e.lastname

where firstname.lastname is the parameter to method index

Url I want to achieve is

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/firstname.lastname

I've already referred to http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...uting.html

Can anyone suggest exactly what should I map it to.

Thanks

Chirdeep

[eluser]Jagar[/eluser]
use the routes.php file to do that

Try this it may work:

Code:

route['(:any)'] = "main/index/$1";

Hopefully it'll work

[eluser]love2code[/eluser]
It does work and thanks for that but now it redirects all other hyperlinks to same page i.e. Main/index Controller

[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
as higher routes take precendece, and easy way to solve it is to put all you're other controllers above that route

[eluser]love2code[/eluser]
Sorry but I am not sure what you mean by that. If you are referring to routes.php, that's how it looks

$route['default_controller'] = "main";
$route['scaffolding_trigger'] = "";
$route['(:any)'] = "main/index/$1";


I've also moved $route['(:any)'] = "main/index/$1"; to the top but that doesn't change anything.

Apologies if I didn't get you right.

[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
This sounds to me like it might be a problem with either your htaccess file, or your CodeIgniter configuration. In the config.php file, I recommend you try the various uri_protocols, and see if they help. Sometimes REQUEST_URI or QUERY_STRING seem to help. If this doesn't help, please post your htaccess file.

[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
Create a route above

Code:

$route[’(:any)’] = “main/index/$1”;

which is something like

Code:

$route['(controller1|controller2|controller3)'] = $1;

(You'll also need to add for other methods in those controllers

[eluser]love2code[/eluser]
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|includes|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Sorry, it's just occurred to me that I totally misunderstood the question. That'll teach me not to start reading half way down the page...

If I understand the problem now, I think a rout like this might help. I haven't tested it, but I think that's a good place to start.

Code:

$route['([A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+)'] = 'main/index/$1';

[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
[quote author="TheFuzzy0ne" date="1241204763"]Sorry, it's just occurred to me that I totally misunderstood the question. That'll teach me not to start reading half way down the page...

If I understand the problem now, I think a rout like this might help. I haven't tested it, but I think that's a good place to start.

Code:

$route['([A-Za-z]+\.[A-Za-z]+)'] = 'main/index/$1';

[/quote]

Think you might want to also add a '-' to the surname part, for double barrel surnames (such as mine)