What is a slug?

Question

I\'m currently working through CodeIgniters tutorial in its fantastic documentation. However there is a term that is frequently used and it\'s called a \"slug\". I\'ve looke

Answer 1

All answers given above are correct but I want to answer directly to the question. Slug in the Codeigniter tutorial example refers to the URL "news". If you don't have "news" as your $slug or slug in your database and you run this url in your browser "index.php/news/view" will return error 404_page not found. I encountered this problem until I read the above answers which gave me the understanding of what Slug meant. I change my slug to news in the database table. Slug is like a pointer.