Getting started with URL routing with PHP CodeIgniter

Question

I just thought of routing my URLs which is like

http://localhost/codeigniter_cup_myth/index.php/adminController/mainAccount

and it would be pretty nice if it was

http://localhost/codeigniter_cup_myth/Accounts/mainAccount

Where should I start when routing URLs in my web application?

Answer 1

Routes are defined as such:

$route['product/:num'] = "catalog/product_lookup";

where product / anynumber is your URL: http://www.example.com/product/234. The second part is the controller/method. The URL we're talking about here would call the catalog controller's product_lookup method.

$route['accounts/mainaccount'] = "adminController/mainAccount"

Would fire what you're looking for. Take a look at the CodeIgniter User Guide for more examples.

I use this .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Which allows any physically existing file to be accessed, all else is routed to CI.

Answer 2

Also, adding something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

to your .htaccess file will get rid of the index.php part