I have a controller named 'list'. It simply lists users after retrieving them from database. The view has pagination, but it is my own pagination. What I want to do is this:
www.example.com/list/<page_num> --> show records belongs to page number given
www.example.com/list --> show first page, i.e. it is equal to '...com/list/1'
To do so, I have a route like this:
$route['list/(:num)'] = "list/index/$1";
The problem arises when I want to assign link to href's at page anchors. For example, when I set link for the second page like href="list/2", that 'list' word adds up to the uri and after some clicks I got something like:
www.example.com/list/list/list/3
If I use href="2", then link becomes
www.example.com/2
which is invalid. I can use "/" at the end of controller name, I mean instead of using '...com/list', I can use '...com/list/', however it is not the best solution I suppose since some users want to 'pretify' it deleting the slash at the end. I am enough of using base_url for every link, img, css, etc! Is there a solution to this problem?
I would make code simillar to this one
function index() {
redirect('list/1'); //whatever default or you can try _remap()
}
function list( $page = FALSE ) {
if ($page === FALSE || !$this->_validPageFunction( $page )) $page = '1';
//... whatever needs to be done here
}
private function _validPageFunction( $page ) {
// return FALSE (not-valid) or TRUE (valid)
}
sidenote: try not bother with routes that much, use index() function to redirect to default, routes can be/get messy
sidenote2: always use base_url(''); for links.