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Boris

I'm really new to Fuel, coming from CI, so maybe this was asked before, but I couldn't find it. I have a modular app where the modules can have a frontend controller, but also the possibility for an admin controller.
In CI I use HMVC, and some custom routes so that I can have this:
modules/dashboard/controllers/dashboard_admin.php And then this controller is accessed through /admin/dashboard. Similar to the example from Phil Sturgeon in a blog post some time ago. I was able to achieve something like this in Fuel:
modules/dashboard/classes/controller/admin.php But this would mean that all my admin controllers would be admin.php, and this just doesn't feel right, since I'm using a quick open function in my editor, and this way it's hard to find the admin controller I want, since all of them are called admin.php

The problem is with the underscores I guess, cause Fuel uses those for the folder structure. Does anyone have a best practice suggestion for something like this? How do you do it?
I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

Thomas Edwards

I normally put admin sections, of any size, within a folder. /classes/controllers/blog.php
/classes/controllers/admin/welcome.php (Dashboard)
/classes/controllers/admin/blog.php So that would appear as
/blog
/admin
/admin/blog You can, currently, only use one level of folders. See Controller in a subdirectory for more.
http://fuelphp.com/docs/general/controllers/base.html

Boris

I think you didn't really understand my problem. I'm using modules so your example wouldn't work here. Thanks for the feedback anyway

Santiago D.

I do it this way: Routes:

'admin'      => 'dashboard/admin/home',
'admin/(:segment)/(:any)' => '$1/admin/$2',

Structure:

modules/dashboard/classes/controller/admin/home.php // site_url/admin
modules/dashboard/classes/controller/admin/something.php // site_url/admin/dashboard/something
modules/blog/classes/controller/admin/ea.php // site_url/admin/blog/ea/param

I don't really like that many subfolders, but it's the best way I found.

Boris

Hm, this seems a little better, but is it even possible to create a structure like this:

modules
    dashboard
        classes
            controller
                admin
                    dashboard.php
                dashboard.php

This way there would be 2 classes called Controller_Dashboard in the same namespace, so I guess it would throw an error.
I don't know if you know how the quick open work in Coda. Let's say I want to work on the blog module of a huge project, and I don't wanna klick through the files manually, so I press ctrl+q, type blog, and I have 2 files there. blog.php and blog_admin.php. That's the way I have it setup in CI.
I know this is not CI, but I think it would be good have a good solution for this, since almost all apps have an admin area, and it is much nicer to work with modules

Well I guess i could call the 2 controllers dashboard.php and dashboardadmin.php, but that just looks ugly. A shame you can't use underscores.

Ranie

If I remember correctly I did mine like this...

modules
    dashboard
        classes
            controller
                admin
                    > admin.php
                dashboard.php

Then I can call the admin with "/dashboard/admin" Instead of something like "/dashboard/admin/dashboard"

namespace Dashboard;

class Controller_Admin_Admin ... &#123;}

Boris

Why not simple:

modules
    dashboard
        classes
            controller
                admin.php
                dashboard.php

So you don't need the subfolder. But this isn't really what I'm looking for, since all my admin controllers would be admin.php, and I'm trying to avoid that.

Ranie

You can use routing to route requests for

'admin/(:any)'      => '$1/admin/???'

? Or whatever name you want for your admin controller?

Boris

Yes, but I need a subfolder then. Well I guess this is the best possible solution.

modules/blog/classes/controller/blog.php
modules/blog/classes/controller/admin/blog.php

Thanks

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