Question

So I am using a Codeigniter 2.1 Internationalization i18n Library and I need to adapt my routes to use the language parameters in my short urls where I remove the controller’s name:

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

#$route['^(en|es|ro)/(.+)$'] = "$2";
#$route['^(en|es|ro)$'] = $route['default_controller'];

$route['results$']      = "fetch/results";
$route['video/(:any)']  = "fetch/video/$1";
$route['tag/(:any)']    = "fetch/tag/$1";

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

So I need to make this work http://localhost/app/en/results?query=t-shirts instead of http://localhost/app/en/fetch/results?query=t-shirts

How can I accomplish that?

Edit:

$route['^(en|es|ro)/results$'] = "fetch/results";
$route['^(en|es|ro)/video/(:any)'] = "fetch/video/$1";
$route['^(en|es|ro)/video/(.+)$'] = $route['^(en|es|ro)/(.+)$'] = "$2";"fetch/video/$2";

None of the above works.

If I do http://localhost/app/en/fetch/video/asfasf works perfectly

This doesn’t http://localhost/app/en/video/asfasf

The error I get is a 404:

404 Page Not Found

The page you requested was not found.

Found the problem

So, for some reason having this set : $route['^(en|es|ro)/(.+)$'] = "$2"; before what I was trying to do was causing the problem.

Answer 1

For anybody that uses that library and wants to set custom routes, in order for them to work you’ll have to do it in this order:

1. custom routes
2. The routes added by the library

example:

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

//First
$route['^(en|es|ro)/video/(.+)$'] = "fetch/video/$2";
$route['^(en|es|ro)/results$']     = "fetch/results$2";
//Second
$route['^(en|es|ro)/(.+)$']        = "$2";
$route['^(en|es|ro)$'] = $route['default_controller'];


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