Question

I’m working on a survey system for my company and I have it setup in the system so that there are two ways to take the survey.

1) New Survey Taker no prior information

2)Survey was already sent out and a session was created.

In case one I would like my URL to look like:
mydomain.com/SurveySystem/index.php/survey/$surveyID

($surveyID being a integer of the survey to take)

The second case would where we create a link with for the test taker. I would like the URL to look like this:
mydomain.com/SurveySystem/index.php/survey/$surveySessionID/$guestID

In my Survey class I have it setup as the following:

function index(){

$segments = $this->uri->total_segments();

if($segments == 1){
   echo "no surveyID set";
   return;
}

if($segments == 2){
    $this->take_survey($this->uri->segment(2));
}

if($segments == 3){
    $this->survey_session($this->uri->segment(3), $this->uri->segment(4));
}

}

When no information is passed the it echos just fine.
But if I try to put a integer where the surveyID is it thinks i’m loading up a method in the controller.

Thank you for the help!

Answer 1

Use URI routing to override the default controller/function/arguments mapping.

Example: in your application/config/routes.php:

$route['survey/:num'] = "survey/take_suvey";

Bonus: You can also remove the index.php/ part, see Removing the index.php file.