Loading html file in UIWebvView called 'index.html?mod=eurt' - ios

Let me start by saying I know how to load up an html file, but I need to load up index.html?mod=eurt. So the file itself is called index.html, but I need to load it with ?mod=eurt at the end. (the html file is shared between different applications and changing "?mod=X", will tell the file exactly what to do.
The problem is, I cannot figure out how to do this with the way I am loading up the html into the webview (I'm rather new at iOS development, so there may exist an easy way I don't know about). Here's what I have to load a local html file so far:
NSString *htmlFile=[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"
inDirectory:nil];
NSString *htmlString=[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:htmlFile
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
[webView loadHtmlString:htmlString baseURl:nil];
I tried changing the ofType:#"html" to ofType:#"html?mod=eurt", but I didn't really expect that to work, and it didn't.
I've come from the land of Android where I simply did webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html?mod=eurt");
There must be an easy way to do this in iOS, right?

You can do something like this
NSString* bundlePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"];
NSString* strUrl = [[urlToLoad absoluteString] stringByAppendingString:#"?mod=eurt"];
NSURL* urlToLoad = [NSURL URLWithString:strUrl];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:urlToLoad]];

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NSError *err = nil;
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Something like:
NSError *error;
NSStringEncoding encoding;
NSString *htmlFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource: #"Sample"
ofType: #"html"];
NSString *htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:htmlFilePath
usedEncoding:&encoding
error:&error];
NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:htmlString, entry.body];
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
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I got "hello world" text to print after I hardcoded some html right into my UIWebView functions, but now I am trying to move that HTML to a file elsewhere on the file system, and it isnt rendering.
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{
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But, it sounds like you have added that file as a bundle resource. That's what the code you posted looks like, too, but I had to ask, to be sure.
Most likely, the only thing wrong is that this:
NSString *htmlFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"learn"
ofType:#"html"
inDirectory:#"src/html_files"];
should be this instead:
NSString *htmlFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"learn"
ofType:#"html"];
From the Apple documentation for NSBundle,
+ (NSString *)pathForResource:(NSString *)name
ofType:(NSString *)extension
inDirectory:(NSString *)bundlePath
bundlePath
The path of a top-level bundle directory. This must be a valid path. For example, to
specify the bundle directory for a Mac app, you might specify the path /Applications/MyApp.app.
The bundlePath parameter is not meant to specify relative paths to your bundle resources. The version of pathForResource:ofType: that does not have a bundlePath parameter is almost always what you'll use. It will find the learn.html file wherever it lives, once your app is installed, and return the full path to that. You don't really have to worry about how it's nested. It's just a bundle resource.
Give that a try. As I suggested in my comment, though, I always recommend taking advantage of the error parameter for debugging:
NSError* error;
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if (error != nil) {
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}

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