Question

Ok, so maybe that title is a bit confusing. What I’d like to do is trap any info, if any after the first URI segement if that segment is something specific and forward that on to another controller. Here’s my routes file:

$route['default_controller'] = "main";
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['testroute'] = "main";

So, what this does right now is, if I got to mydomain.com/testroute it shows me the default page, which it should. However, what I’d like is if I go to mydomain.com/testroute/testmethod/ where testmethod is a method in the main controller I’d like it to forward that as well. So basically I’d like it to route to the main controller regardless of if there are more segments after the testroute, but if there are they should get passed as method calls of the main controller.

Answer 1

Simply catch the parameter given and pass it to the controller e.g. like this:

$route['testroute/(:any)'] = "main/$1";

(:any) actually catches any type of string. There are other selectors, as well. More on this topic can be found here.

Edit (answer to your comment):

If you want a general route to the index() method of your main controller, just add both routes:

$route['testroute'] = "main";
$route['testroute/(:any)'] = "main/$1";