Question

How can I rewrite the following urls in CodeIgniter

localhost/users/show_profile/john

to

localhost/john

Thanks

Answer 1

you can achieve dynamic URL using CodeIgniter Routes.

Assuming
localhost/users/show_profile/john

We’re looking at:

localhost/controller/method/variable

we can use the following route:

$route['([a-zA-z_]+)'] = "users/show_profile/$1";

You can access the variable by calling $this->uri->segment(1); inside show_profile() function.

IMPORTANT: keep the $route['([a-zA-z_]+)'] at the end of the routes.php file, to make sure it’s not overriding any other routes.