Home/ Questions/Q 8970217
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-15T17:42:01+00:00

My CodeIgniter web application must be divided in three big parts: Admin – unlimited

  • 0

My CodeIgniter web application must be divided in three big parts:

  1. Admin – unlimited access to editing, deleting and creating data
  2. User – read-only
  3. Partner – limited access to editing data, no deleting, no creating

All parts are independent from each other, but work with the same database.

My question is – what is the best way to keep them apart?

I see two possible ways:

  1. Subfolder in controller directory. Not good – if i create an Admin-subfolder i wont be able to do something like this admin/events/controller_name.php or admin/places/controller_name.php. And without such a separation it will be a mess.
  2. Separate applications on subdomains (admin.sitename.com/ , partner.sitename.com/). Also not very good – i will have to duplicate all models (which are same in all cases), libraries etc.

Are there any better ways to do this? It would be really nice if i could somehow use different sets of controllers and only one set of models/libraries.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Separate controller libraries for each.

    • Users – normal controller
    • Admin – admin_controller extends controller
    • Partner – partner_controller extends controller

    Read here: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2010/02/CodeIgniter-Base-Classes-Keeping-it-DRY

    Separate folders in Controllers and Views to keep the functionality separate. Use your routing to sort how you reach each.

    • 0