Codeigniter & PHP - forcing a 404?

Question

In codeigniter, as you know, a page of the form: /class/function/ID, where class is the controller name, function is the method within the controller, and ID is

Answer 1

Yes show_404() WILL send out a 404 but it looks like hell. There have been a few hacks suggested here, but why hack when you can use built in features?

Upgrade to CI 2.0 and you'll be able to use the amazing:

$route['404_override'] = 'errors/error_404';

Then you can have a general errors controller without having to worry about trying to load views, libraries and helpers WY too early in the CI instance to function properly.