URI codeigniter library not working

Question

I'm just learning codeigniter, and I seem to have run into something that is a little strange. I'm using the URI routing feature but need to get the URI segments of the re-routed URI.

This is one of the routes:

$route['content'] = "site/display/main template/content";

and when visiting http://lipsum.localhost/content it loads the controller, but it won't let me use the URI class:

class Site extends Controller {

    function display($template, $page) {

     echo "display<br>";

     $this->load->library('uri');
     echo $this->uri->rsegment(1, 0)."<br>";
     echo $this->uri->rsegment(2, 0)."<br>";
     echo $this->uri->rsegment(3, 0)."<br>";
     echo $this->uri->rsegment(4, 0)."<br>";

    }

}

when I visit the page, it just displays

display
0
0
0
0

Basically this code should load a template and then pass $page to it so it can load a section of a website. So 'content' might use 'main template' as the template, and then pass 'content' to it as the page to load. But I also want to be able to pass '/products/whatever' to it, etc -- so I want to cycle through the URI segments to get the full "path" to the page. How can I make it work? And, why is what I have not working?

Answer 1

Try getting rid of the space in "main template", use an underscore or camelCase it together to "mainTemplate". I can't remember the last time I saw a space in any kind of route or url.

Answer 2

I have a similar problem. I would like to have url like: pages/title-of-the-page. I get 404 all the time. It works only if i use: pages/titleofthepage, or pages/title_of_the_page, or pages/titleOfThePage.

Thare is any solution for this?

Answer 3

Hi Adobi, to do that you add custom routes to your /app/config/routes.php file.

$route['title-of-the-page'] = "<controller>/<method>";