SEO friendly link in codeigniter

Question

First of all sorry if the question has been already posted, but I didn't got any ans ...

My question is .. Developing a app in codeigniter.

I am making a link like this

echo site_url('controller_name/book/'.$variable_name);

Which will display the details of a book . I would likes to make a URL like follows

http://www.sitename/book/book_name ( name of the book  )

please help me how to do this ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Look at url_title() .

You can use this to set a SEO friendly URL. If you want underscores, don't forget to pass the second parameter.

$url_title = url_title($title, 'underscore');