How to reference a function after an argument in CodeIgniter URLs?

Question

My desired URL structure for a section of a web application is as follows:
/user/FooBar42/edit/privacy, and I would like this to route to controller: user, function: edit, with FooBar42 and privacy as arguments (in that order). How should I accomplish this with CodeIgniter?

Answer 1

You can also use the remapping option of the CI controller

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/controllers.html#remapping

and doing something like this:

public function _remap($method, $params = array())
{
    // check if the method exists
    if (method_exists($this, $method))
    {
        // run the method
         return call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $params);
    }
    else
    {
     // method does not exists so you can call nay other method you want
     $this->edit($params);
    }
}