Archive for the ‘uri’ tag
Using url_title() with Spanish or other strange characters
If you are running your site in Spanish and using url_title to create Permalinks in CodeIgniter then likely you had run in character issues while creating your links.
Martin posted a solution in CodeIgniter’s forum with a workaround for this issue. He proposed
$trans = array(
$search => $replace,
"á" => 'a',
"é" => 'e',
"í" => 'i',
"ó" => 'o',
"ú" => 'u',
"à" => 'a',
"è" => 'e',
"ì" => 'i',
"ò" => 'o',
"ù" => 'u',
"ñ" => 'n',
"ä" => 'a',
"ë" => 'e',
"ï" => 'i',
"ö" => 'o',
"ü" => 'u',
"\s+" => $replace,
"[^a-z0-9".$replace."]" => '',
$replace."+" => $replace,
$replace."$" => '',
"^".$replace => ''
);
My two cents here are the following. You can try to override the URL Helper by extending it in MY_url_helper.php under application/helpers directory.
How to submit a page to the same controller in CodeIgniter
Imagine you have a view with a <FORM> that need to submit to the same controller class. Probably you don’t want to hardcode the action attribute of your form nor leaving it in blank.
Using PHP_SELF could be a possible approach. However, since $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’] is a PHP server variable (nothing to do with CodeIgniter), you may encounter some problems with different environments.
So, why not to use the built-in CodeIgniter URI library? My solution to this problem is the following. Use $this->uri->uri_string() in conjunction with site_url().
Here is a simple example:
