Question

I want to make my web app theme-able. There are 3 ways I researched:

Solution 1:

- application
    - views
        - theme1
            - template files
        - theme2
            - template files
        - admin template
- css
    - theme1
    - theme2
- js
    - theme1
    - theme2
- images
    - theme1
    - theme2

It is working well. However it is not comfortable when placing files in separated folders.

Solution 2

- application
    - views
        - theme1
            - css
            - js
            - images
            - template files
        - theme2
            - css
            - js
            - images
            - template files
        - admin template

And I changed /application/.htaccess to

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]  

It is also working well, but is it good for security? (i’m not good at .htaccess)

Solution 3

- application
    - views
        - admin template
- themes
    - theme1
        - css
        - js
        - images
        - template files
    - theme2
        - css
        - js
        - images
        - template files

And I changed views path to theme folder in MY_Loader.

It looks like better structure. I have an issue with admin template.
Becuse I want also to place admin template files in folder views as a core system,
I don’t know how to make views load function can see files in both of place.

Could everyone please advice me for the best solutions.
Thanks and Best Regards,

Answer 1

In MY_Loader, I assume you’re extended the view() function to look for the right view in a different location? If that’s the case, why not create a new function in MY_Loader called adminView() or something which is just a copy of the view() function, but it looks for views in the admin location.

In your controller for methods that are calling theme specific files, you would call:

$this->load->view('template');

and when you need to call an admin template, you would call:

$this->load->adminView('template);