Codeigniter custom Route

1. CodeIgniter
Custom Routing : Manipulate your URI
Abdul Malik Ikhsan
http://slideshare.net/samsonasik/presentations

2. Introduction : URI vs URL
 URI : Content type is given by http
content negotiation
ex : http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home
~> content type : PNG
 URL : Content type is represent by
spesific resource in web address
ex :
http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home.gif

3. Why ?
 SEO Mith 
 Hide Original action controller
 Manage which action will be called
 URI Simplicity
….like this ……
 http://twitter.com/samsonasik

4. Default Routing
 example.com/product/detail/1
 example.com/product/detail/2
 example.com/product/detail/3

5. How to Change ?
 Modify route in config routes
 _remap in your controller ( modify
from action controller only )

6. Modify route in config routes
////////////////custom route///////////////
$route['product/(:num)'] = "product/detail/$1";
$route['product/(:num)/get'] ="product/checkout/$1";
$route['product/(:any)'] = "product/index";
$route['blog/(:any)'] = "blogs/users/$1“;
$route[‘hehehe'] = "blogs/index“;
/* End of file routes.php */
/* Location: ./application/config/routes.php */

7. URI Result
 Example.com/product/15
 Exampleblog.com/blog/samsonasik

8. _remap in controller
public function _remap($method, $params = array())
{
if (method_exists($this, str_replace('-','_',$method) )) {
call_user_func_array(array($this, str_replace('-','_', $method) ), $params);
} else{
show_404();
}
}
public function show_news($id) //will be called show-news/$id
{
echo 'show news'.$id;
}
public function comment_news($id) //will be called comment-news/$id
{
echo 'comment news'.$id;
}

9. And one more thing ….
Remove your
index.php from your
URI with .htaccess

10. RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

11. Thank You ;)

12. This presentation contained copyrighted material licensed
under various creative commons licenses unless otherwise
noted:
References and Further Reading
 http://www.anmsaiful.net/blog/php/codeigniter-remap-power-benefit.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_negotiation
 http://ajaxprojects.com/ajax/newsdetails.php?itemid=55
 http://www.pierobon.org/iis/url.htm
 CodeIgniter User Guide
Photos
 http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/coaster-maverick-0708.jpg