I have a controller named search. Codeigniter works in the following way if a user types sitename.com/search it hits the search controller and runs the index function.
If a user then types in sitename.com/search/cars, the controller will look for the function cars within the search controller.
However I want to have a generic function called lookup(), which takes the 2nd parameter in a URL string.
For example: sitename.com/search/electronics [electronics is returned] sitename.com/search/cheese [cheese is returned]
Then it does a database lookup using the keyword if it finds a match it loads the page. In the case of cars it would be sitename.com/search/cars if no match then it redirects to sitename.com/search/error.
Is it possible to modify my controller to handle requests like this? Without specifying every possible route?
$route['Cars'] = 'sitename.com/search/Cars';
$route['Cheese'] = 'sitename.com/search/Cheese';
$route['Electronics'] = 'sitename.com/search/Electronics';
Search Controller:
<?php
class Search extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->load->helper('url');
//parse URL: run lookup() function then redirect to page if valid return
}
public function index()
{
//check for url string to see what set or collection to load:
}
public function lookup()
{
}
}
?>
