If Only I Knew That!

I recently had to create a codeigniter site with three main sections and two of the sections needed to appear in directories in the URL’s

• The main site
• Backend user dashboard
• Backend user admin

All the main site pages were available via top level URL’s, nothing new there with the standard codeigniter routing

http://example.com/about

http://example.com/join

these simply route to

/application/controller/about.php
/application/controller/join.php

The backend dashboard needed to appear to be in a ‘dashboard’ directory like so

http://example.com/dashboard/events

these route to

/application/controller/events.php

and finally there was a admin section within the dashboard section and the URL’s looked like so

http://example.com/dashboard/admin/events/add

http://example.com/dashboard/admin/events/delete

these routed to

/application/controller/admin_events.php

the admin_ was required to prevent the events controller conflicting but I didn’t want admin_events
to be part of the URL.

So to allow the directory based URL’s and remove the requirement to show the admin_ in the URL to call the right controller, a little work in the /application/config/routes.php was required.

$route['^dashboard/admin/(.+)$'] = "admin_$1";
$route['^dashboard/(.+)$'] = "$1";