CodeIgniter URI Routing: remove method name index from URL

Question

I am working with CodeIgniter (V:2.2.6) and I have a simple class User with some basic methods like create, update, edit, delete and index. For the index function, I am using an argument $user (which is the second URI segment) in order to display some information regarding that user. So the default URL looks like:

/user/index/john

to display some information about the user 'john'.

Now, I want to remove the term 'index' from the URL, so that it looks like:

/user/john

For that purpose I have added the following rule in routes.php.

$route['user/(:any)'] = "user/index/$1";

It serves the purpose, but it prevents accessing other functions like /user/create and goes inside /user/index automatically. To solve this problem, I can not see any other way except manually adding routing rules like

$route['user/create'] = "user/create";

for each method of the User class, which is not cool at all. So, please can anyone suggest me a better way of routing under the current circumstances?

Here are my codes:

<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class User extends CI_Controller {
    public function index($user = '') {
        echo "index!";
    }

    public function create() {
        echo 'create!';
    }
}

Note: I have gone through the CodeIgniter documentation for URI Routing and another similar question here, but could not figure out a promising solution. And please don't suggest for CodeIgniter version update.

Why is it "Not Cool" to add in your specific routes for create, update etc with the (:any) being last in the list? You wont go wearing out your keyboard by typing them in. — TimBrownlaw
– TimBrownlaw, Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 0:12
@TimBrownlaw well I kept the function list smaller for the sake of demonstration. Consider a real life scenario where the number of methods inside a class might be 10, 20 or 30. — Rivnat
– Rivnat, Commented Nov 22, 2016 at 3:31

Rivnat · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-22 10:36:53Z

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I'm not sure, if this is the answer you like, but i think it should work. Just put this function in your user controller.

public function _remap($method)
{
    if (method_exists($this, $method))
    {
        $this->$method();
    }
    else
    {
        $this->index($method);
    }
}

edited Nov 22, 2016 at 10:36

Rivnat

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answered Nov 21, 2016 at 17:06

Atural

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3 Comments

Rivnat Over a year ago

Thank you for your answer. Remapping Function Calls (codeigniter.com/userguide2/general/controllers.html#remapping) definitely sounds better than adding routing rules manually.

Atural Over a year ago

Alright, thx for accepting - but keep in mind you should prevent the possibility to create usernames like create, update, delete, insert and index.

James Mac Over a year ago

CI3 has this issue, or my mamp config doesn't support something, I got the same issue with the index which was working by default before on other web apps. This snippet is a must have. Thanks @sintakonte!

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