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    <p>I am trying to create a Content Management System using Codeigniter. I have a page where I display a list of article titles. When any user click on any of the article titles it will take the user to the details of that article in a separate page.</p> <p>I am displaying the article title list using the following code:</p> <pre><code> &lt;a href="&lt;?php echo base_url(); ?&gt;article/&lt;?php echo $row['article_id']; ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;?php echo $row['article_title']; ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>When any user click on the above link it takes the article_id and go to the following controller </p> <p>Controller:</p> <pre><code>function index($id){ $this-&gt;load-&gt;model('mod_articles'); $data['records']=$this-&gt;mod_articles-&gt;list_articles($id); $this-&gt;load-&gt;view('view_article',$data); } </code></pre> <p>Model :</p> <pre><code> function list_articles($id) { $this-&gt;db-&gt;select('*'); $this-&gt;db-&gt;from('article'); $this-&gt;db-&gt;where('article_id', $id); $query = $this-&gt;db-&gt;get(); return $query-&gt;row_array(); } </code></pre> <p>Now when I display the result, in the browser's address bar the link looks like this-</p> <pre><code> localhost/cms/article/1 //&lt;&lt; here localhost/cms/ is my base_url </code></pre> <p>According to this <a href="http://cmsteachings.com/frienly-urls-good-seo" rel="nofollow">website</a> , an example of good SEO friendly URL is <code>http://www.mysite.com/joomla-seo-tips</code> .</p> <p>Now my question is how to make my URL look like <code>localhost/cms/article/my-article-title</code> instead of showing the id of the article at the end of link?</p> <p>To acheive this should I query for my article titles instead of article ids or there are some better ways to do that? </p> <p>Please share your ideas on this. </p> <p>Thanks in Advance :)</p> <h2>Edit</h2> <p>So, before saving my content should I run following code get the <code>$article_slug</code> and then save it? </p> <pre><code>function create_slug($string){ $slug=preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-]+/', '-', $string); return $slug; } $article_slug= create_slug('My Name '); // as you suggested I will create a new column for this </code></pre>
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    1. COSo what if your url look like this ... ? **localhost/cms/article/1/my-article-title**
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    2. COIt is also alright, I guess. But how to do it? thanks :)
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