Question

I would like to build the following url for artcles: http://mysite.com/articles/ID. Where the ID is the id of the article, which isn’t constant of course. How can the be done using codeigniter? As I know the second segment should be the method name inside the controller…

Answer 1

Its simple, Codeigniter have powerful url routing

 http://mysite.com/article/id

In your router

$route['articles/([0-9]+)'] = "controller_name/article/$1";

And in your controller

public function article($id) {
  //here your article id
  echo $id;
}

Also you need some url forwarding on .htaccess to forward all combinations to index.php

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]