Controllers with hyphens in the path

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• almostcompletely

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  edaw
  
  In ./fuel/config/config.php
  $config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-';
  This defines what characters are allowed in URLs so in theory, yes.
• edaw

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  I understand that it's possible in theory.
  
  However, there doesn't seem to be a natural way to achieve it since you can't have a hyphen in a class name.
• admin

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  You have to create a route to have hyphens since they map to a controller method that can't have hyphens. If you are using just a view file to display a page (Opt-In Controller http://docs.getfuelcms.com/general/pages-variables), FUEL will look for whatever the view file name is and it can include hyphens.
• edaw

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  I understand the Opt-In Controller.
  
  It seems a bit unnatural to add to routes to achieve this.
  
  A number of CodeIgniter user seem to suggest that replacing underscores (_) with hyphen (-) is a more suitable solution.
  
  * http://21coder.com/2013/10/how-to-replace-underscore-_-with-hyphen-in-codeigniter/
  * http://ianluckraft.co.uk/2011/01/codeigniter-allow-hyphen-in-url/
  * http://www.bappi-d-great.com/use-hyphen-in-codeigniter-url/
  * http://upshots.org/php/codeigniter-hyphenated-urls
  
  Is there any reason that Fuel CMS wouldn't adopt this approach?
• admin

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  I agree... adding routes to accommodate hyphen is a bit silly. I'll look into adding this to the next release.
• edaw

  July 2015 edited 9:47AM

  Great news. Thanks.