I'm relearning PHP and codeigniter but i can't help but notice how ugly my url looks.
So i have a pages controller: Say lets load homepage.
It would look like this:
public function home(){ $this->load->view('template/header'); $this->load->view('template/navbar'); $this->load->view('pages/home'); $this->load->view('template/footer'); } I guess thats decent as my url will probably look like this: http://localhost/ProjectName/index.php/pages/home
But whenever i click on a link that involves more data processing for example lets say my home has a list of users and i click on one to view their profile. I ofcourse have to pass something to identify which profile i am to load so my link would look like this:
http://localhost/OnlineStories/index.php/pages/view_userprofile/1
In my controller id have:
public function view_userprofile(){ $userid = $this->uri->segment(3); //process data then load view } I'm not asking for any advanced stuff but i would like to ask simple things to improve my url like correct standard for naming my controller functions.
For example: on previous instances of loading my homepage my function name was view_home now its simply just home so its cleaner.
Maybe i could rename my view_userprofile to simply user_profile.
Anyway is there any better method to passing values from view to controller other than uri segment? its what ive been using so i never gave it much thought. I've seen some use get() but idk if its better than uri segment?
Or should i stick with the uri segment and keep my url as controller/method/parameter?
I haven't really explored post-project polishing in codeigniter so idk if theres a way to polish/change the url(just the name).
