How to design a User Friendly URI in CodeIgniter?

I'm kind o开发者_开发问答f new to CodeIgniter.

I need to design a simple website where I pull out information from a Database. The information from the database is about Ads. I have information about the Country, Country Zone, Zone Location and the kind of the Ad.

My goal is to have an URI like:

http://www.someurl.com/index.php/country/country_zone/zone_location/ad_type/title_of_ad

There are some information out there on how to do this with CodeIgniter?

Best Regards,

I think the easiest way is with a custom route in your application/config/routes.php. Something like this:

$route['^(:any)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)/(:any)'] = "your_controller/get_ads/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5";

then your controller function would look something like:

function get_ads($country, $country_code, $zone_location, $ad_type, $title_of_ad) {
    // your code
}

.. you can replace (:any) with a more specific regular expression if there is some pattern to the arguments.

the first 2 arguments in your link are your controller name and the method of that controller you want to call.

so

http://www.someurl.com/index.php/country/country_zone/zone_location/ad_type/title_of_ad

would mean that you call the country_zone method of your country controller and pass zone_location, add_type and title_of_ad to that method.

what you want ist

http://www.someurl.com/index.php/TheControler/themethod/country/country_zone/zone_location/ad_type/title_of_ad

implemented like that:

class TheControler extends Controler{
    function themethod($country,$country_zone,$zone_location,$ad_type,$title_of_ad){
        //your code
    }
}