is there a way to make second segment not to look for a function ?

[eluser]netameta1[/eluser]
What i mean is right now my website is set up to redirect to controller name home

so basically when i type www.domain.com/home or www.domain.com i will end up in home controller.

Now in that controller // page i am loading some tables from database - that data will require pagination from time to time. which mean the link of the pagination is :
www.domain.com/home/3/

Now the way i have it set up when this address is being accessed CI goes to home controller and look for function name 3.

my question is:

is there a way to make it so CI will treat the 3 as a variable instead of a functions.
Also is there a way to do it just for that section of the website (i am asking this because i have my whole admin panel set up already with the normal "www.domain.com/admin/function/variable" )


Thanks in advanced for any help.

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
Yep, with routes or _remap()

[eluser]netameta1[/eluser]
Thanks very much this and IRC helped a lot.

[eluser]netameta1[/eluser]
sr.research associate.

my routs file is now as this:

Code:

$route['default_controller'] = "home";
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['home/(:num)'] = "home/$1";

doesn't that suppose to route numbers after home/2 to home controller ?

[eluser]CroNiX[/eluser]
[quote author="netameta1" date="1351732513"]
doesn't that suppose to route numbers after home/2 to home controller ?
[/quote]
Yes, but unless you change CI's behavior of expecting url segment 2 to be a method in the controller (which _remap() does) then you have to pass it to a method. It's just hidden in the url.

Try something like

Code:

$route['home/(:num)'] = "home/page/$1";

and then create a "page" method.

Code:

public function page($page = 0)
{
  echo $page;
}

Yes it will work if you also go to /home/page/4, but you won't create those links so no one will know. You'll create links like /home/4. If that's a problem you can always verify that $this->uri->segment(2) !== 'page' and reject it if it is as that means that was entered in the url.

[eluser]netameta1[/eluser]
What i did was: $route['home/(:num)'] = "home";

if the address now is www.domain.com/home/3 - it will redirect to home which is what i wanted + segment 2 will be passed.
so when i echo $this->uri->segment(2) - on home - index function i get 3

which is exactly what i am looking for.

i went farther and

and added the sorting after the number and this also works as segment 3.

Anyways thanks very much for your help,