Question

I have a website which is built on Codeigniter and I want to create some pages with information like terms or privacy, their address should be:

http://domain.com/terms
http://domain.com/privacy

My question is: should I create for each page a controller? In CMS for example, if I add a page it has to create a ‘pysical’ page on the server (CMS which is built on Codeigniter)?

Answer 1

For static pages like a Privacy Policy or Terms of Service page where they don’t really fit under any other controller I usually create a “content” controller that looks something like this:

class Content extends CI_Controller {

    public function privacy_policy()
    {
        $this->load->view('privacy_policy');
    }

    public function terms_of_service()
    {
        $this->load->view('terms_of_service');
    }

}

Then I add some routes to remove “content” from the URL:

$route['privacy-policy']   = 'content/privacy_policy';
$route['terms-of-service'] = 'content/terms_of_service';

That way you don’t need to create a new controller for each page and you can keep your static pages organized in a single spot.