Routes with wildcard (:any) ignoring other controllers

Question

In the archive Routes.php I defined the following route:

$route['(:any)'] = 'reference/check/$1';

I need it because the first parameter in the URL after the domain is the username (exemplo.com/{nome_usuario}). Then I perform checks on the Reference class.

The problem is that in this case all the others Controllers were inaccessible, all being overwritten by the route rule as shown above.

As a temporary solution I had to force others Controllers defining Routes for them as well, being as follows:

$route['home'] = 'home';
$route['login'] = 'login';
$route['register'] = 'register';
$route['(:any)'] = 'reference/check/$1';

Is there any alternative I can use so I don’t need to set new ones Routes whenever I create a new Controller?

Answer 1

So far, there is no alternative. Since the tag (:any) serves precisely to accept anything, you will need to inform which routes you want to keep as controller rather than redirect.