Question

I am trying to route a URL using codeigniter URL routing.
I want to redirect a url like

• /users/edit?email to userController/editemail
• /users/edit?password to userController/editpassword

I tried using the following line in routes.php in config folder

$route["users/edit?(email|password)"] = "userController/edit$1";

This displays page not found. I am guessing that ? is being treated as a regular expression character. I tried escaping it but that didn’t work either.

I don’t want to set the config setting uri_protocol to PATH_INFO or QUERY_STRING, since this is just a pretty URL I want to setup, not pass anything to the action.

Can somebody help me out over here?

Regards

Answer 1

You should escape the ? like this, it should work. (not tested)

$route["users/edit\?(email|password)"] = "userController/edit$1";

Later edit:

This works as intended:

$route["users/edit(email|password)?"] = "userController/edit$1";

The userController looks like this

<?php

class UserController extends Controller {

    function edit()
    {
        echo "general edit";
    }

    function editemail()
    {
        echo "edit email!";
    }

    function editpassword()
    {
        echo "edit password";
    }
}

Router works like this:

• if you go to http://sitename/index.php/users/editemail you see editemail() action.
• if you go to http://sitename/index.php/users/editpassword you see editpassword() action.
• if you go to http://sitename/index.php/users/edit you see the edit() action (the question mark makes optional the email/password field and you can do some other things in edit() action