Question

I’m fairly new to Codeigniter as well as MVC and I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out the best way to accomplish this.

I need to build an app that allows users to apply to various programs offered by some institutions. However, these institutions must all have a spot in the app yet they want their independence from one another—not sharing one application page for all programs. For instance Institution 1 wants a section of the site to only view and apply to their programs and Institution 2 wants a section of the site to only apply to their programs.

What is the best way to accomplish this? Should I create a separate controller for each institution?

E.g. sitename.com/inst1/apply, sitename.com/inst2/apply

Each of these controllers would essentially be identical with the same create/read/update/etc functions though. What are best practices in this situation? Thank you!

Answer 1

You can create folders to serve your functionality properly. This is widely used for APIs.

For example. You can have your folder structure like this.

- application/
    - controllers/
        - inst1/
            apply.php
        - inst2/
            apply.php

With this, you’ll have the URL endpoints like.

index.php/inst1/apply
index.php/inst2/apply