Create "Permalink" functionality in codeigniter

Question

Recently i am working with codeigniter. I need to create a permalink functionality just like as wordpress. Can anyone suggest me a way that, how i can implement this in codeigniter.

Answer 1

Can you give more details about what you want to do. In my understanding you want to create something like this?

http://example.com/2012/post-name/

1) You must have a mod_rewrite. 2) Use the controller or model but will advice to use Controller

Controller:

    public function something(string name, int year){
     //some code
   }

This will be translated to

http://www.example.com/something/name/year

Hope this helps or you can paste your code so I can explain further.

Answer 2

So create the page: admin.php

Then in the controller:

public function about-us(){
 $this->view->load('about-us');
}

When you run the page is will be: http://domain.com/about-us. about-us is the function in the controller.

Answer 3

Are you asking how to remove the spaces and replace with a hyphen?

$slug = 'this is a bad slug';
$fixed_slug = str_replace(' ', '-', $slug);
# uncomment next line to see result
# echo $fixed_slug; 

If you want to make that a method, no worries:

public function fix_slug($slug){
    $fixed_slug = str_replace(' ', '-', $slug);
    return $fixed_slug;
}

You can obviously do more in that method, or abstract it to use with other text you want altered.