Question

I want to create an E-commerce website. So it will have 2 sides. Front side of the Website & Back side (or Admin Panel). I want to create this using Codeigniter framewrok. How do I set up the folder structure of the site to maintain both sides of the site ?
The front side of the site url should be like

http://www.mysite.com/

And the url of the back side should be like

http://www.mysite.com/administrator/

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is a pretty simple setup that coule be handled in different ways. I would also suggest what oso96_2000 suggested. I have just done what I would do with the views folder. In the views folder I would put a admin and public folder. inside each folder is a new folder for each controller and inside that is the view for each in the controller. Hope this makes sense.

application/
- controllers/
- - admin/
- - - welcome.php
- - - products.php
- - welcome.php
- - products.php
- views/
- - admin/
- - - welcome/
- - - - view1_for_welcome.php
- - - - view2_for_welcome.php
- - - products/
- - - .....
- - public/
- - - welcome/ 
- - - - view1_for_welcome.php
- - - - view2_for_welcome.php

and so on. then you would have to make sure you put some checks in to make sure the user has access to admin controllers