Redirecting URL with dynamic URI segment in cpanel

Question

<a href="www.mysite.com/index.php?information/adminpanel/<?php echo $id;?>" name="approve"   
 id="approve" ">Approve >></a>

When I am redirecting to this url it shows correct id in url but gives page not found error. I am new to cpanel. Please tell me is there any other way I can pass this id or how to route page in cpanel with uri segment.

Answer 1

Most probably you are missing a part in URL unless you have changed the routing in .htaccess file somehow.

The right URL should most probably be (if you didn't change anything)

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=information/adminpanel&some_id=<?php echo $id ?>

Note that the controller/action part should be sent as a part of query string under the variable route and that the ID variable has to be a part of query string as well under you name it variable that is then obtained from $_GET['younameit'] in your controller.

The routing in OpenCart is done either via SEO URLs like

www.mysite.com/category-slug/sub-category-slug/product-slug

or even

www.mysite.com/product-slug

while these are being translated by mod_rewrite rule into

www.mysite.com/index.php?_route_=<SEO_URL_PART>

or by non-SEO URLs where You need to specify the controller

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=common/home

where the default index() action of CommonHomeController is invoked or even by specifying the concrete action to be invoked as in

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=checkout/cart/add

where the add() action of CheckoutCartController is invoked. Because of this calling an URL like

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=information/adminpanel/123

would lead to trying to invoke the action 123() within the InformationAdminpanelController which most probably does not exist. Instead of this if you call URL

www.mysite.com/index.php?route=information/adminpanel&some_id=123

it will be the index() action invoked while you can obtain the some_id value like this:

if (!empty($this->request->get['some_id'])) {
    $some_id = $this->request->get['some_id'];
} else {
    $some_id = 0;
}

if ($some_id) {
    // ...
}

Again - all described above is the default OpenCart routing behavior and will apply for your installation as well unless you have changed the mod_rewrite rules defined in .htaccess file.