Php – Codeigniter HMVC to set up custom routes for modules

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I am working quite closely with Codeigniter the PHP framework:
http://www.codeigniter.com/

Now I've added this Modular Extensions – HMVC to my Codeigniter framework.
https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc/overview

Now, I've created my own module in the modules folder and set up directories for controllers, models and views as instructed. However I'm struggling specifically with custom routing.

I have created the config directory in my module blog directory and I have created the routes.php file within.

Now to access my module in the browser i would go to localhost:8888/blog/ now I'm mostly asking out of curiosity, I wanted to create a custom route so that maybe I could access the page like localhost:8888/posts/ so I thought that setting up the following route would work:

$route['posts'] = 'blog';

or if I had a method called listings I could use

$route['posts/listings'] = 'blog/listings';

However this returns a 404 Page Not Found.

Is it possible to create custom routes like this in a module?

Best Answer

Setting up custom routes for HMVC Easy here are some examples below. You can use same techneique for CI3 Make sure you choose right version from here https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc/downloads go to branches and choose your version The Default is for CI-2

$route['default_controller'] = 'catalog/common/welcome/index';
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE;

// Common
$route['admin'] = "admin/common/login/index";
$route['admin/dashboard'] = "admin/common/dashboard/index";
$route['admin/logout'] = "admin/common/logout/index";
$route['admin/register'] = "admin/common/register/index";

// Users
$route['admin/users/user_edit/(:any)'] = "admin/user/users/user_edit/$1";
$route['admin/users/user_password/(:any)'] = "admin/user/users/user_password/$1";
$route['admin/users/user_key/(:any)'] = "admin/user/users/user_key/$1";

For Example:

admin will be module name.

application modules / admin <-- Admin Module Name

application / modules / admin / controllers / common <-- Sub folder
application / modules / admin / controllers / users <-- Sub folder

Please watch this great tutorial for beginners on HMVC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fy8E_C5_qQ

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If your using a route file from within the module folder, the route name must start with the module name.

modules/content/config/routes.php

$route['default_controller'] = 'content';

$route['content/'] = '';

You could add the route in the normal routing file

application/config/routes.php

$route['news_event'] = 'content/content/news_event';

The idea behind hmvc is to not call a module via the routing method, but rather call the module within the system itself(view or controller)

Modules::run('module/controller/method', $args);

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Just adding this here as the Link provided by Clasyk isn't currently working...

The short version from that thread boils down to this...

In application/third_party/MX/Loader.php you can do the following...

Under public function view($view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE) Look for... (Line 300)

return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));

Replace this with

if (method_exists($this, '_ci_object_to_array'))
{
        return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));
} else {
        return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_prepare_view_vars($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));
}

It's the result of a "little" undocumented change that the CI Devs implemented, which is fine!

There is a pull request on Wiredesignz awaiting action so he knows about it...

In the meantime, you can implement the above "diddle" and get back to coding :)

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