Question

When I originally built my website, it was handling only one interface, but now I need to handle many interfaces.

I can detect which site to send for each request and isolate each site from the others, but all the sites have the same views.

Is there a way that I can render different views from the same controller?

I’m thinking something like:

application
            controller
            model
            site_1_view
            site_2_view

Is this possible?

Answer 1

It was very simple – I found that I could set the view base path in my constructor:

$this->view->setBasePath("../application/site_1_view/views");

So in public/index.php, I detect the URL, set it in the session, detect the name from my DB, then use the name to set the base path:

$this->view->setBasePath("../application/".$siteName."/views");

So the application structure is now:

 application
            controllers
            model
            site_1_view
                         views
                                scripts
                                         controllerName
                                                        ActionName 

            site_2_view
                         views
                                scripts
                                         controllerName
                                                        ActionName