Routing help needed

[eluser]Naoshad[/eluser]
Hello,

Greetings. In one of my current application I need this: www.example.com/WaQw2rD my users will request url like that and I need to pass WaQw2rD to the default controller.

how can I do it?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

[eluser]Tpojka[/eluser]
Controller could be like this:

Code:

<?php if ( ! defined ('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed!');

class User_provided extends CI_Controller
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
  }

  public function index($myVar)
  {
    $myVar = $this->uri->segment(1);
    if ($myVar == FALSE OR $myVar == NULL)
      redirect('home', 'refresh'); // or where ever
    /*
      here write block of code you need to do with variable
    */
  }
}

In APPPATH . 'config/routes.php' add this:

Code:

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

Make sure you set wild card for routing after all defined routes.
Maybe helps.

[eluser]Naoshad[/eluser]
Thanks a lot Tpojka for your reply.

Could you please help me to understand this? "Make sure you set wild card for routing after all defined routes."

Thanks again.

[eluser]Tpojka[/eluser]
In post above I wrote route rule for anything that is set after base_url().
So if you have route like:
http://www.example.com/contact
user_provided.php will be used instead other controller you coded for contact page and there fore,
you need to set specific routes before wild card route.

Code:

$route['contact'] = "pages/contact";
$route['about'] = "pages/about";
$route['(:any)'] = "user_provided/index/$1";

Read that on this page.

[eluser]Naoshad[/eluser]
Thanks a lot... it worked like a charm

Thank you very much.

[eluser]Naoshad[/eluser]
Hi,
One more question. For example if I have another controller there names dahboard and there are methods in this controller. Now if I want to access

Code:

www.example.come/dashboard/method1

or

Code:

www.example.come/dashboard/method2

it doesn't hit that specific method though I added this:

Code:

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

how can I make all methods accessible?

Thanks.

[eluser]Tpojka[/eluser]
[quote author="Naoshad" date="1399573591"]Thanks a lot... it worked like a charm

Thank you very much. [/quote]
I am glad if I was helpfull to you.

If you have route rule with wild card key (:any), you would need to set all other routes before that.
I mentioned that before. Any specific URL should be called has to be assigned to it's concrete value trough routes.php file.
Example:
In URLs

Code:

www.example.com/controller
www.example.com/controller/method
www.example.com/controller/method/argument

If in routes.php you have:

Code:

$route['(:any)'] = 'controller';

[/code]
any of those links will call first one to be executed because
wild card :any can mean anything of that after base_url() regardless segments or any other specific characters.