Question

I have a PHP website based on codeigniter. It uses Mode View Controller and has articles. Each article has id and is displayed by Articles controller. Once an article is displayed the url looks like http://localhost/ci/articles/show_article/245. Now the problem is any one can enter number like 246 123 222 and view the articles at random. am not comfortable with this. I want readers to go the way things are organized in the site and want to stop them from directly accessing the articles from URL.
How can this be achieved in PHP / codeigniter.??

Answer 1

You can’t control user outside the browser area, and if you could. you should not.

Alternatively, you could use encoded article Ids by your own pattern to make it unpredictable. when these encoded article ids are received, decode them back and show the articles accordingly.