Question

I am making a site for a client and decided i would use code igniter.

The site essentially has two backends, one for designers, and one for a sales team. So after logging in, the user will be redirected to either

• mysite.com/sales/
• mysite.com/design/

The sales team for example can view orders, containers, products, therefore i need a controller for each of these.

• mysite.com/sales/orders/

The sales need to be able to view, edit, delete certain orders…

• mysite.com/sales/orders/vieworder/235433

Basically my problem is i dont have enough url segments to play with.

My thoughts on solving my problem

• removing the orders, containers, products classes and making ALL of their methods as methods of the sales class, although this would mean a large number of methods and loading all models so it seemed kind of pointless.

• removing the sales/designer classes and controlling what each kind of user has access to based on a user type stored in session data.

• a way of having an extra url segment?

I appreciate any advice, I just dont want to get 3 weeks into the project and realise i started wrong from the beginning!

Answer 1

Use folders.

If you make a subfolder in /application/ called sales you can put different controllers in there:

/application/
    /sales/
      orders.php /* Controller */
    /design/

Then in orders.php you will put your vieworders($id) method and so on, and you will be able to acces it with domain.com/sales/orders/vieworders/id.

You can also make subfolders in the /models/ and /views/ to organize your files.

Now, Access Control is something apart and it depends more in the auth system you are using.