Question

How can I rewrite the following codeigniter url

localhost/test_project/pages/show_page/11

to

localhost/test_project/pages/11

and is it possible to further reduce like:

localhost/test_project/11

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should edit this file: application/config/routes.php.

Let’s assume you have a pages controller and a show_page method with receives an id as a parameter (just as you said).

your URL is like localhost/test_project/pages/show_page/11

I assume that the parameter is always a number, so using wildcards as described here you can add the following to your routes.php file:

$route['pages/(:num)'] = "pages/show_page/$1";

So your URLs will be like localhost/test_project/pages/3. This is like saying if anyone tried to visit localhost/test_project/pages/3, he/she actually means localhost/test_project/pages/show_page/3.

For urls like localhost/test_project/3 you can add this:

$route['(:num)'] = "pages/show_page/$1";