Create Custom URLs

Question

I have a model that returns a list of artist's names from a database along with their ID. I want to loop through these artists in my view and create links to their pages with the following format:

http://www.example.com/the-artist-name/artist-portfolio/ID.html

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Controller

$data['artists'] = $this->artists_model->get_all(); // should return array
$this->load->view('yourview', $data);

View

<?php foreach($artists as $artist): ?>
    <a href="http://example.com/<?php echo $artist['name']; ?>/artist-portfolio/<?php echo $artist['id']; ?>.html">
        <?php echo $artist['name']; ?>
    </a>
<?php endforeach; ?>