Codeigniter - How to get url variable value inside contoller function?

Question

I have URL like this: http://localhost/sitename/some-post-title/code=24639204963309423

Now I have one findUser function in my controller file

Answer 1

Are you trying to get a path segment variable or a GET variable? It looks like you're going for a bit of both.

Natively in CI, you can use $this->input->get if you update your url to look more like

http://localhost/sitename/some-post-title/?code=24639204963309423

(Note the question mark).

Alternatively, you can modify your URL to look like this

http://localhost/sitename/some-post-title/code/24639204963309423

And then use URI segments like so

$data = $this->uri->uri_to_assoc();
$code = $data['code'];

If you do not want to change your URL, you will have to break that string up manually like so

$data = $this->uri->segment(3);
$data = explode($data, '=');
$code = $data[1];

I would argue the second option is the most SEO-friendly and pretty solution. But each of these should be functionally identical.