Question

i need to create an url like this: http://www.example.com/index.php/scheda/name-surname-id.html

so i create the Scheda controller, this is the code:

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

class Scheda extends CI_Controller{

    function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
    }

    function index(){
        $name_scheda = $this->uri->segment(2);
        //i need only the id for the search into db
        $id = substr($name_scheda, strripos($name_scheda,'-')+1, strlen($name_scheda));

        echo "name:".$id;
    }
}

but when i write the url in the address bar i get an 404 error…can someone help me to understand why?

Answer 1

Your url:

www.example.com/index.php/scheda/name-surname-id.html

Should be:

www.example.com/index.php/scheda/index/name-surname-id.html

index() is the default method, but the index segment can only be missing from the URL if there are no arguments, otherwise Codeigniter will think you are trying to call the method name-surname-id.html().

You can use routes.php or _remap() to clean up the URL and remove the index segment.

// routes.php
$routes['scheda/(:any)'] = 'scheda/index/$1';

OR:

class Scheda extends CI_Controller{

    function _remap($method, $args) {
        $name_scheda = $method;
        $id = substr($name_scheda, strripos($name_scheda,'-')+1, strlen($name_scheda));
        echo "name:".$id;
    }
}