Question

The $route['page/(:num)'] in the route.php of codeigniter will accept only numbers in the urls, while the $route['page/(:any)'] will accept all the characters in the url. Is it possible to specify alpha-numeric values only? also letters only?
Thanks.

Answer 1

It would be nice, but according to the docs, you’re going to need to use regular expressions.

$route['products/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)'] = "controller/method/$1";