Question

I love the way SO handles URIs. I’d like to mimic the same behaviour in CI. I have a controller called Users and the index method should take one argument, that being the user ID. I search the DB for the username associated with that user ID. Consider that user:1 has username:Santa Claus, how can I append the username to the URI, so that it looks like http://foo.com/users/1/santa-claus

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Users extends CI_Controller {

function index($uID = 0) {
    if ($uID > 0) {
        $this->load->model('users_model');
        $uname = $this->users_model->_getUsername($uID);

        #append somehow..       

    } else {
        echo('load all users');
    }
}

}

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Just to be clear, I’m trying to achieve this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11041075/704015

Answer 1

application/config/routes.php

$route['users/(:num)/(:any)'] = 'users/index/$1';

Controller

    function index($uID = 0) {
         .....
         $uname = strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-", $uname));

         header("Location: ".base_url()."user/".$uID."/".$uname);

Please include a condition do something else incase username is already present to avoid loop.