Help w/ URI Routing - Skip class & function calls

[eluser]Wyndsang[/eluser]
Hello!

I started using CI a couple of days ago, and it has been a really effective tool so far.
Yet, there is one teensy problem I'm facing.

I have a very simple page, and a very simple controller called Page.

Page has a function, get_page_by_reference($reference), which fetches mysql data based on a supplied variable, and then constructs a webpage by that data.

Page is set as default controller.

Now, normally, I assume I would supply $reference like this:

Code:

example.com/index.php/page/fetch_page_by_reference/reference

However, I would like to be able to just supply:

Code:

example.com/index.php/reference
or
example.com/reference

Is this possible with $route['']?

Also, it would be great if this was only true when there is only one segment following index.php.

[eluser]jmb727[/eluser]
I'm not sure about $route I've never used it before. You could always remove index.php from the url with mod_rewrite.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui.../urls.html

[eluser]Wyndsang[/eluser]
Yeah, but that isnät really the issue though.

Thing is, I want CI to assume that URI-segments are variables for the function mentioned above, so long as it is the only segment.

[eluser]toopay[/eluser]
[quote author="Wyndsang" date="1311606161"]
However, I would like to be able to just supply:

Code:

example.com/index.php/reference
or
example.com/reference

Is this possible with $route['']?
[/quote]

To achieve the second uri, you need to remove index.php from your uri. How? Simply add .htaccess file, generally that will contain some lines like these :

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

After that, you could set your whatsoever route, details : URI Routing

[eluser]Benito[/eluser]
If I understand correctly, you want to reroute

Code:

example.com/index.php/page/fetch_page_by_reference/reference
to
example.com/reference

and pass the referance?

I don't really understand why you would want to do it this way, because this means that anything passed after yoursite.com/$variable will be run through this controller.

In config/routes.php set:

Code:

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

On the other hand, I would rather do something like:

Code:

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

Cheers.

[eluser]Wyndsang[/eluser]
I have now used mod_rewrite to remove the index.php-part of the URI, so that much is solved.

@Benito, well, I want to do it the other way 'round, if I understand you correctly.

I want visitors to visit a nice, clean URL, such as

Code:

example.com/pricing

And I want routes to assume that, as long as there is only one URI segment, it should be passed as an argument to Page/fetch_page_by_reference

The above URL would thus be the equivalent of visiting

Code:

example.com/page/fetch_page_by_reference/pricing

Perhaps worth noting, Page is my default controller.
I have tried various approaches using $route['(:any')] to no avail.
I either get a Not Found-error, or a CI 404.