Question

I am putting together a simple networking site and would like to have the urls work similar to facebook so by typing in domain.com/username I would get a user profile. I can do this already this way

Logged in users profile at

domain.com/

other users profile at

domain.com/home/username

The default controller is called home and I am currently using the _remap function to check for extra url parameters to display different data based on what is or isn’t passed.

My question is how would I map this out so I can access user profiles by:

domain.com/username 

Is there a routes.php setting I could use? htaccess?

Answer 1

you should add the following rule in your config/routes.php

// Profile Route
$route['(:any)'] = 'home/$1';

this will reroute all your request to the home controller.

so domain/michelle will re be rerouted as domain/home/michelle
but in this case all your requests will be rerouted to the home controller
eg. domain/pages/about will also be rerouted to domain/home/pages/about wich false.

domain/michelle => domain/home/michelle // TRUE
domain/pages/about => domain/home/pages/about // FALSE

so you MUST add for each request a identic rule before the Profile Route,
eg. $route['pages/(:any)'] = 'pages/$1';

put it all together :

// Page Route 
$route['pages/(:any)']  = 'pages/$1'

// Last Profile Route
$route['(:any)'] = 'home/$1';