site.com/variable INSTEAD OF site.com/controller/function/variable???

[eluser]Guest[/eluser]
Hi again all!

I currently have my site working like this...


site.com/video/variable/variable/etc

it's working well, but is there anyway to remove the "video" controller from the url path?

i have tried changing routes.php and setting this:

$route['default_controller'] = "video";

And that will load the index function in the controller. But to then start adding variables to the url, you still need to put the controller name back in.

I would really like to have this:

site.com/variable/variable/etc


Maybe a slight problem though, is that i would also still need to access other controllers if their name exists.

So if a user typed:

site.com/funny/free <-- that would load the video controller and variables.

But if the user typed: site.com/join <-- i would like it to load the join controller, and see that exists, and should not be used as a variable in the video controller.


Thanks so much for all the help i've been getting. This is a great forum :-)

Regards,

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...uting.html

You need to add more routes than the default one.

For example:

Code:

$route['staff/edit/:num'] = "admin/edit_staff/$1";

When the user accesses staff/edit/3, CI will call the admin controller, edit_staff() function, and pass 3 to that function.

[eluser]Kosonome[/eluser]

Code:

$string = 'controller_name1|controller_name2|controller_name3';
$route['^(?!' . $string . ').*'] = "video/index/$0";

Not sure if this regex is correct by the way.

[eluser]tomcode[/eluser]
in the config/routes file :

Code:

$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";
$route['scaffolding_trigger'] = "";

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

in the controller/welcome.php:

Code:

function _remap($first_var)
{
    // $first_var defaults to 'index'

    // Your code ...
}

[eluser]Guest[/eluser]
wow, the routes.php file lets you do much more then i thought -- its kind of like the rewrite of a htaccess file (which i can never get to work :-)

i have "almost" got my site working with the following code:

Code:

$route['members']                     = "members";
$route['members/(:any)']             = "members";

$route['join']                     = "join";
$route['join/(:any)']             = "join";

//$route['ajax']                     = "ajax";
//$route['ajax/(:any)']             = "ajax";


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

This almost works great, if the code is not right, if someone can please explain how to improve it - that would be amazing.

The real problem with the above is the ajax route.

One of my javascript files "posts" a username to be checked to a controller called ajax.php

for example -- in the js file, it would be "post" Joe Blogs to:

site.com/ajax/functionname

And it works perfect until i use this route line:

Code:

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

Then the post no longer works between the javascript and the php page. If i remove it again, it works.

I have tried making a route to exclude the ajax getting caught in the :any rule (i've commented it out above), but it doesnt work.

Any help would be amazing again!

Thanks for all the help guys :-)

[eluser]tomcode[/eluser]
The code should work. Take out all the code ouf the controllers, leave just an identifying echo and test the addresses directly in Your browser. You're surely have a bug somewhere.

[eluser]Guest[/eluser]
Ah, I needed to use this:

Code:

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

That little $1 made all the difference :-)

Thanks everyone for the help!