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Hi there,

Myself and my webmaster are exploring codeigniter and PHP. My website has a search engine using PHP therefor all the files have to sit on the Application folder

/public_html/system/application/views/application

Thats all and dandy but lately is getting crowded with so many pages, so I wish to make each section have its own direct URL.

At present my website have the following URLs

http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/application/administration
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/application/contact
http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php/application/accounting

I like to change the URLs to:

http://www.mywebsite.com/administration
http://www.mywebsite.com/contact
etc etc

The application.php file sits at >> /public_html/system/application/controllers

The question is what changes and what files need to be changed so as to reflect the new URLs.

Please help.

Mister Ed

First off, you need to overlook: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/urls.html ... will give some useful information on how to get that index.php out of your url.

Second, your files should be like:
/public_html/system/application/controllers/administration.php
/public_html/system/application/controllers/contact.php
/public_html/system/application/controllers/accounting.php

Inside each controller your index() files would represent

http://www.mywebsite.com/administration
http://www.mywebsite.com/contact
http://www.mywebsite.com/accounting

And… done 😉

Mister Ed,

You may also look at routes in CI. This basically allows you to route your application to ANY URI scheme. Routes are always checked so the “overhead” is already there.

In respect to the route, one would have to enter extra script lines in the file routes.php? Sorry about the dam questions but my friend and I are new to Code Igniter and PHP, so we are taking baby steps here.

Our aim like stated before is to have the URLs as short as possible.

Ed

Yes, you would have to add an extra line to routes.php file

Whilst the majority of the css in my site is either embedded in the view files or generated using php, there are still some ‘standard’ files which don’t need to be run through the framwork - css reset, and grid etc.

check this out ->http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html

check this out ->http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html :p