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Asked: 2026-05-22T23:09:43+00:00

My application is designed to provide a single profile page for each user, with

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My application is designed to provide a single profile page for each user, with the 3rd segment being the user’s ID.

example.com/profile/page/1

Assuming user 1 is “Jon Jovi”, using CI’s routing I would like to generate this URI

example.com/jon_jovi

Is it possible to send this user’s ID to config/routes.php, run a function to extract user 1’s info from database and insert it like

$route['profile/page/$row->id'] = $row->first_name . '_' . $row->last_name;

Any thought or suggestions on how to do this are much appreciated – thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to the “client” url to be in format base_url/[username], you will probrably need to grab the username some regex routing, like $route['([a-zA-z_]+)'] = "profile/page/$1";, and look on your database for that user.

    Another solution would be appending the id to the url, like base_url/[username]/[id]. For this, the regex $route['([a-zA-z_]+)/([0-9+])'] = "profile/page/$2"; would pass the id as the first parameter for the page function of Profile controller.

    Check the Documentation for more details on dynamic routing: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html

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