how to create Codeigniter route that doesn't override the other controller routes?

Question

I've got a lot controller in my Codeigniter apps, ex: Signup, Profile, Main, etc..

Now I want to build "User" controller.

what I want:

• if people goes to url: example.com/signup, I want use default route to "Signup" Controller
• if people goes to url: example.com/bobby.ariffin, I want to reroute this to "User" Controller because the url not handled by any Controller in my apps.

I had create this in my config/routes.php:

$route['(:any)'] = "user";

but it's override all the route in my apps to "User" Controller.

Is there any simple route for Codeigniter that doesn't override the other controller routes?

Update---

I've got simple regex for this problem, from: Daniel Errante's Blog

$route['^(?!ezstore|ezsell|login).*'] = “home/$0″;

where ezstore, ezsell, and login are the name of controller in Your Apps.

Answer 1

You're going to have to explicitly define all of those routes. Otherwise you will always end up at the "user_controller".

$route['signup'] = "signup";
$route['(:any)'] = "user/display/$1";

or something similar. They are ran in order, so what ever is defined first, is going to happen first. So if you catch (:any), you're going to send ANYTHING to that controller.

Also keep in mind that you can use regular expressions, so if you know there is always going to be a '.' in there, you could test for that.

Answer 2

You can also use a foreach statement for this. That way you can keep your controllers in a nice neat list.

$controller_list = array('auth','dashboard','login','50_other_controllers');

foreach($controller_list as $controller_name)
{
    $route[$controller_item] = $controller_name;
}

$route['(:any)'] = "user/display/$1";