Case Insensitive Routing in CodeIgniter

Question

I\'ve written this in the CodeIgniter\'s routers.

$route[\'companyname\'] = \"/profile/1\";

This is working fine but when I type \"CompanyN

Answer 1

Uhm, well, an dirty but straight to the point way would be to make a small hack to the core Uri class. Open the uri.php file inside system/core/ , scroll to line 269 where you have the method _explode_segments() and make them lowercase. Bad method, but should work.

function _explode_segments()
{
    foreach (explode("/", preg_replace("|/*(.+?)/*$|", "\\1", $this->uri_string)) as $val)
    {
        // Filter segments for security
        $val = trim($this->_filter_uri($val));

        if ($val != '')
        {
                    // $this->segments[] = $val;  // <--- ORIGINAL
            $this->segments[] = strtolower($val);   // <--- CHANGED
        }
    }
}  

Just consider that if you upgrade your install this changes will be overwritten, but they're so small anyway. Alternatively, you might go for a pre_system hook, but I think it would be much more difficult

Also, in routes you should not use leading or trailing slashes, so it must be

$route['companyname'] = "profile/1";