CodeIgniter: Simple URL routing question

Question

I'm new to CI and URI routing in general.

I created a new app. Set the default controller to Main. In Main, I have an index method, a popular method and a recent method.

When I load my app, the url shows up as http://localhost/myapp... this obviously loads up the index method in the Main controller... that's fine.

Now how do I route my URIs so I can load up the popular and recent method by going to http://localhost/myapp/popular and http://localhost/myapp/recent respectively?

Answer 1

You can use CodeIgniter's routing features. To do that, just add the following lines to your application/config/routes.php file:

$route['recent'] = "main/recent";
$route['popular'] = "main/popular";

Answer 2

$route['recent'] = "your_controller/recent";
$route['popular'] = "your_controller/popular";

That's what you will need. Any call to "recent" will route to "your_controller/recent". The same goes with popular.

Answer 3

If popular and recent are actual pages in your application, as opposed to functions, you ought to move those to their own controllers, as opposed to keeping them under main.