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OK, it is important to understand URI routing, especially for beginner. I had started to learn and use this framwork one month ago. And first a few hours, for routing touble. And a few days ago, I had a trouble about this. So to understand routing and kill my bugs, I tried to find good idea. Then, I got an idea, made one small controller like this:

<?php
  class Controller_Testroute extends Controller &#123;
    function action_index() &#123;
        Debug::dump($this->request->route);
    }
}

And temporary all controllers and actions changed to this class/action on app/config/routes.php. This small code show information to debug/understand routing of fuel. Specially 'path' show matched pattern. Now the time to use your eye-balls(for docs) and hands(to type) and a head(to understand) with Fuelphp routing. Try those: Q1: This code don't work to intend. Why? and How correct it? in routes.php... ':year' => 'calendar/yearly',
':year/:month' => 'calendar/monthly',
':year/:month/:day' => 'calendar/daily', Q2: If you successfully corrected Q1 pattern, add route to 404 when more than 4 segments specified. Q3: Alter with Q1 pattern. This also don't work. Why? How correct? 'blog' => 'blog/index',
'blog/(:any)' => 'blog/anything/$1',
'blog/post/(:num)' => 'blog/create/$1', Q4: Now Fuelphp version.1.1, your_domain.com/Hello and/or .../HELLO, and/or .../HeLLo don't match this. How specify a pattern like non case-sensitivity? (Basically, capital URL is not good by historical reason about old file name system. So just try as funny question.) (Tips : It is just regular expression problem.) 'hello' => 'welcome/index', Q5: What segment match with this route pattern? (not only abc/def/xyz patter. fine more. Tips: Which difference between :any and :segment?) 'abc/(:any)/xyz' => 'dummy/things/$1', Q6: Final question. Correct this to work properly. (Non defined patterns must go to 404.) ':categorya' => 'index/show/1',
':categorya/:categoryb' => 'index/show/2',
':categorya/:categoryb/:categoryc' => 'index/show/3',
':categorya/:categoryb/(:num)' => 'index/showboth/$3',
':categorya/:categoryb/:categoryc/(:num)' => 'index/showall/$4',
'blog' => 'blog/index',
'about' => 'blog/about',
'signup' => 'user/create',
'login' => 'user/login',
'logout' => 'user/logout',
'blog/post' => 'blog/create',
'blog/post/(:any)' => 'blog/create/$1', For beginner, use your hands, use your eyes, use your head. There are funny questions to solve. And you can get a lot of idea about routing. Change all controller/action to testroute/index in routes.php and try them. Have a fun! P.S.
I'm not good English writer, so sorry to understand my writing. ML Hirohisa Kawase