Question

I’m coding a blog for a side project in Codeigniter. There will be three modules in my blog.

What I need to know how to do, for example:

• example.org -> show all posts with module3 theme
• example.org/module1 -> shows only posts of module1 with module1 theme
• example.org/module2 -> shows only posts of module2 with module2 theme
• example.org/module3 -> shows only posts of module3 with module3 theme

Any thoughts how to deal with this in the URL schema? (Routing)

Answer 1

You can do a simple switching:

class Post extends CI_Controller{

function index($module = null)
{
   switch($module)
   {
      case NULL:
      case 'module3':
        //load theme 3
      break;
      case 'module1':
        //load theme 1
      break;
      case 'module2':
        //load theme 2
      break;     
  }

}

In your routes:

$route['default_controller'] = "post";
$route['(:any)'] = "post/index/$1";

How to implement not-existing cases is up to you now, this is just a start. Also, the “:any” route is a catch-all that will grab any url, so you’ll need to exclude (by placing them before any other routes you want to remap. Or you could take a look at the _remap() function to use in your controller