Question

I just started working with CodeIgniter and I am having some trouble with the segment-based urls. I understand how to call them doing $variable = $this->uri->segment(2); but whenever I go to the url, I am getting a 404. Is there something I need to do for URI routing?

For example, I am trying to go to localhost/ci/index.php/games/1000 (where 1000 would be a game ID), but I am getting a 404. localhost/ci/index.php/games/ works fine.

Answer 1

In order for that to work you would need to have a controller called games.php with this content

class Games extends CI_Controller
{
    public function index($id)
    {
        echo $id;
    }
}

Unless you do something like this

class Games extends CI_Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        echo 'this is index';
    }
    public function game($id)
    {
        echo $id;
    }
}

and add this to your routes.php

$route['game/(:any)']  = "games/game/$1";