CodeIgniter, dynamic menu and routes

Hi Marco,

I haven't done this in codeigniter (in cakePHP I used mod_rewrite) but I do know you should be able to use regular expressions in the route

e.g.

$route['product/(:any)'] = "catalog/product_lookup";

Where the url would be passed to your controller function 'product_lookup'.

See here for more info: https://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html

Hi Rob, thank you for quick reply.
I'll read the link, but I wish to know if this could work: I could use only one controller, one model and one view to display products; here the code could serve different contents accordingly to the parameters: is this the right way?
I could place only one row in the routes.php, let's say something like

$route[<-- regex here -->] = 'products/$1';

where $1 is parameters to pass to the controler->to the model to extract data from database.
But my links are www.example.com/Furnitures/Bedroom so I have to pass both parameters, Furnitures as category and Bedrooms as subcategory to serve a page which lists all products in that subcategory. So in routes.php I place only one $1 which represents all parameters, is it right?
I realize the question is a bit confusing, but I can't tell it better, at this moment

Yes, the idea is to set statically static pages such as home and contacts and set dinamically the other. In effect, I can have a structure liek the one yo said (products/cat/subcat). I have to take some time to read manuals about how to manage parameters...

See here for how they're passed to your controller functions: https://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/controllers.html#passinguri

Hi, Rob. I'm sorry for the delay, I haven't abandoned this question but I've been tto busy in other aspects of my project I had to complete more urgently. In the next day I'll come back to this: I have just to do some test to see if I understood the right way before to award points and to close this question.
Cheers

By all means test it.  I'll be here if you have any questions :)

Well, it seems to work:

routes.php:

$route['products/(.+)?/(.+)?'] = 'Products/process_data/$1/$2';

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The controller Products.php:

	public function process_data($data)
	{
                /*only to test*/
		echo "<pre>Process data data<br>";
		var_dump($data);
		echo "</pre>";
	}
	
	public function _remap($method, $params = array())
  {
    $map = array();
	foreach ($params as $p)
	{
		$map[] = $p;
	}
       if( $method[0] != '_' && method_exists( $this, $method ))
      {
          return $this->$method( $map );
      }
     show_404();
}

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This way I should be able to process all requests. On to the next and thank you for your fruitful help!
Cheers

Thank you again