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CodeIgniter – When using $route[‘(:any)’] = ‘pages/view/$1’ how to use other controllers?

I’m working on a url shortener/redirect web app in codeigniter and have ran into an issue with my routes.

The first route i have is:

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

This is what handles the redirect, so example.com/dwB would goto the redirect controller.

Underneath I have a few routes that override that for pages and other controllers etc. They work fine when i describe the entire url including arguments etc but I have now ran into trouble as i have some dynamic urls like:

 example.com/stats/view/dwB

Or facebook auth responses etc, which i can’t obviously write a route for. I’ve tried using something like:

 $route['stats/view/(:any)'] = "stats/view/$1";

but none of these appear to override the first route. Here is my entire routes.php document.

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

$route['shorten/create'] = "shorten/create"; // overwrite the previous route

$route['stats/view/(:any)'] = "stats/view/$1"; // allow the stats controller to be used

$route['login'] = "auth/login"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['register'] = "auth/register"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth_social/fblogin'] = "auth_social/fblogin"; // allow the login(auth) controller    to be used
$route['dashboard'] = "dashboard"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth/logout'] = "auth/logout"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth'] = "auth/index"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used

$route['default_controller'] = "pages";

$route['404_override'] = '404';

Answer 1

As I mentioned in the comments, place your “any” route at the end of your custom routes, like this:

$route['shorten/create'] = "shorten/create"; // overwrite the previous route

$route['stats/view/(:any)'] = "stats/view/$1"; // allow the stats controller to be used

$route['login'] = "auth/login"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['register'] = "auth/register"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth_social/fblogin'] = "auth_social/fblogin"; // allow the login(auth) controller    to be used
$route['dashboard'] = "dashboard"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth/logout'] = "auth/logout"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used
$route['auth'] = "auth/index"; // allow the login(auth) controller to be used

// Move "any" route down here...
$route['(:any)'] = "redirect/index/$1";