Question

I am looking into building my own CMS / extended framework on top of CodeIgniter, and I was wondering how to structure it to keep code out of the application folder. I noticed that in a typical CI set up, the file structure looks like this:

application/    //code for your application
system/         //CodeIgniter core
index.php

However, in PyroCMS, They have used the following structure:

application/    //code for your application 
system/
--cms/          //PyroCMS core
--codeigniter/  //CodeIgniter core.

How do I accomplish a similar result?

Answer 1

To emulate that structure just edit the index.php constants:

• APPPATH
• BASEPATH

@WebweaverD has provide you a good solution to improve your application usgin HMVC. I will give you another.

How about something like this:

-system/      //CI core
-index.php      //manage the front_end requests
-acp.php      //manage the back_end requests
-apps/      //applications dir
--back_end/      //only "admin" controllers, libraries, config. No views here
--frond_end/      //only "user" controllers, libraries, config. No views here
--acp/      //views for back_end
--themes/      //views for front_end

All above can be implemented as you want only extending the necessary core files.