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| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/general/routing.rst | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst | 40 |
3 files changed, 57 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst index c7f72f609..5b3ca3e9f 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ Bug fixes for 3.0 - Fixed a bug (#1630) - :doc:`Form Helper <helpers/form_helper>` function ``set_value()`` didn't escape HTML entities. - Fixed a bug (#142) - :doc:`Form Helper <helpers/form_helper>` function ``form_dropdown()`` didn't escape HTML entities in option values. - Fixed a bug (#50) - :doc:`Session Library <libraries/sessions>` unnecessarily stripped slashed from serialized data, making it impossible to read objects in a namespace. +- Fixed a bug (#658) - :doc:`Routing <general/routing>` wildcard **:any** didn't work as advertised and matched multiple URI segments instead of all characters within a single segment. Version 2.1.3 ============= diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/general/routing.rst b/user_guide_src/source/general/routing.rst index c03937070..a6332c90c 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/general/routing.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/general/routing.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Setting your own routing rules Routing rules are defined in your application/config/routes.php file. In it you'll see an array called $route that permits you to specify your own routing criteria. Routes can either be specified using wildcards or -Regular Expressions +Regular Expressions. Wildcards ========= @@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ segment of the URL, and a number is found in the second segment, the You can match literal values or you can use two wildcard types: **(:num)** will match a segment containing only numbers. -**(:any)** will match a segment containing any character. +**(:any)** will match a segment containing any character (except for '/', which is the segment delimiter). + +.. note:: Wildcards are actually aliases for regular expressions, with + **:any** being translated to **[^/]+** and **:num** to **[0-9]+**, + respectively. .. note:: Routes will run in the order they are defined. Higher routes will always take precedence over lower ones. @@ -104,12 +108,28 @@ rules. Any valid regular expression is allowed, as are back-references. A typical RegEx route might look something like this:: - $route['products/([a-z]+)/(\d+)'] = "$1/id_$2"; + $route['products/([a-z]+)/(\d+)'] = '$1/id_$2'; In the above example, a URI similar to products/shirts/123 would instead -call the shirts controller class and the id_123 function. +call the shirts controller class and the id_123 method. + +With regular expressions, you can also catch a segment containing a +forward slash ('/'), which would usually represent the delimiter between +multiple segments. +For example, if a user accesses a password protected area of your web +application and you wish to be able to redirect them back to the same +page after they log in, you may find this example useful:: + + $route['login/(.+)'] = 'auth/login/$1'; + +That will call the auth controller class and its ``login()`` method, +passing everything contained in the URI after *login/* as a parameter. + +For those of you who don't know regular expressions and want to learn +more about them, `regular-expressions.info <http://www.regular-expressions.info/>` +might be a good starting point. -You can also mix and match wildcards with regular expressions. +..note:: You can also mix and match wildcards with regular expressions. Reserved Routes =============== diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst index dcdd6e351..6d99f4655 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_300.rst @@ -52,11 +52,12 @@ Step 5: Update your config/database.php *************************************** Due to 3.0.0's renaming of Active Record to Query Builder, inside your `config/database.php`, you will -need to rename the `$active_record` variable to `$query_builder`. +need to rename the `$active_record` variable to `$query_builder` +:: - $active_group = 'default'; - // $active_record = TRUE; - $query_builder = TRUE; + $active_group = 'default'; + // $active_record = TRUE; + $query_builder = TRUE; ******************************* Step 6: Move your errors folder @@ -64,15 +65,36 @@ Step 6: Move your errors folder In version 3.0.0, the errors folder has been moved from _application/errors* to _application/views/errors*. +******************************************************* +Step 7: Update your config/routes.php containing (:any) +******************************************************* + +Historically, CodeIgniter has always provided the **:any** wildcard in routing, +with the intention of providing a way to match any character **within** an URI segment. + +However, the **:any** wildcard is actually just an alias for a regular expression +and used to be executed in that manner as **.+**. This is considered a bug, as it +also matches the / (forward slash) character, which is the URI segment delimiter +and that was never the intention. In CodeIgniter 3, the **:any** wildcard will now +represent **[^/]+**, so that it will not match a forward slash. + +There are certainly many developers that have utilized this bug as an actual feature. +If you're one of them and want to match a forward slash, please use the **.+** +regular expression:: + + (.+) // matches ANYTHING + (:any) // matches any character, except for '/' + + **************************************************************************** -Step 7: Check the calls to Array Helper's element() and elements() functions +Step 8: Check the calls to Array Helper's element() and elements() functions **************************************************************************** The default return value of these functions, when the required elements don't exist, has been changed from FALSE to NULL. ********************************************************** -Step 8: Change usage of Email library with multiple emails +Step 9: Change usage of Email library with multiple emails ********************************************************** The :doc:`Email library <../libraries/email>` will automatically clear the @@ -87,9 +109,9 @@ pass FALSE as the first parameter in the ``send()`` method: } -*************************************************************** -Step 9: Remove usage of (previously) deprecated functionalities -*************************************************************** +**************************************************************** +Step 10: Remove usage of (previously) deprecated functionalities +**************************************************************** In addition to the ``$autoload['core']`` configuration setting, there's a number of other functionalities that have been removed in CodeIgniter 3.0.0: |