Question

Not sure if this can be done but it seems my main issue is because i have a default route to a method called “index.” I want to be able to list all users tagged with a specific keyword. In addition, users can search for other users based on these keywords.

i.e.
http://www.domain.com/tags/apples
http://www.domain.com/tags/oranges
http://www.domain.com/tags/blueberry

It works fine if I go to the URL manually. I’m having issues getting it to work with a form field.

Snippet of the form_open:

<?=form_open('tags/');?>

<p>Search for Tag: <input type="text" name="tag" /></p>    
<p><input type="submit" value="Search" /></p> 

Here’s a snippet of my controller:

function index() {
    $data['result'] = $this->tags_model->searchByTag($this->uri->segment(2));
    $this->load->view('tags_view', $data);
} 

Here’s a snippet of my router:

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

Now, I can easily fix all this if I have a method called search, but I don’t want the URL to show up as http://www.domain.com/tags/search/orange.

Answer 1

I ended up redirecting the URL and passed the keyword into the URI.

i.e. domain.com/tags/view/