paulopmx - 04 November 2007 11:02 PM

Wiki Page

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Automatic_configbase_url/

Thank you. 
However, do you want to add also the part to work with HTTP and HTTPS?

Sure, haven’t had much time though I think someone replied with a solution for the http and https part, i will incorporate it later, but if you want you can edit the wiki yourself.

Updated the wiki cause i needed this. Just in case, here the code:

Now the main purpose of this post is to finally use the ‘code’ tag here , but here’s the way I like it and I’m almost sure that I even win microseconds and 0.00001% readablity…

Okay, I know I need to set it every time I create a new project…

actually the ternary operator x ? y : z; is faster than an if statement

so use this and it is even faster

maybe not quite as readable however although the commenting helps

Guys, this Automatic config[base_url] solution is actually useful in letting you use multiple domains or addresses for the same website, not just 2 or 3.

@paulopmx: I’m aware of that, but setting up a new website starts with setting the configs anyway so I don’t really care about multiple domains. What I do care about is the problem mentioned in the opening post, which is setting up a site, making a slight config mod and uploading a config file that will not work on that server.

@tonanbarbarian: Nice, although I only compared mine to statements with multiple operators in it.

Please excuse my ignorance, how do you set certain pages to be HTTP while other pages are HTTPS? (for instance, a home page vs vs a enter billing info page)

nikefido - 18 March 2008 12:38 PM

Please excuse my ignorance, how do you set certain pages to be HTTP while other pages are HTTPS? (for instance, a home page vs vs a enter billing info page)

First, be sure all links to secure pages are https. Second, in secure pages verify that the protocol is https. If not, then redirect using https.

It’s helpful to extend a common parent controller for all secure controllers. Then do the protocol check from the constructor of the secure parent controller.

Well depending on the server you would install a SSL certificate for the site - thus when https is used for the domain it knows where to pull the files from. What I’ve done is checks on certain pages so that if the user goes to the page and it’s not https that it will redirect them to the https connection.