I’m at a standstill....need help with controllers (theory)

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I’m at a standstill….need help with controllers (theory)

stuffradio

Posted: 06 September 2008 01:07 PM

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ontguy, I don’t know what Colin does… but that is basically a good way to group it.

In your controller it could be something like

<?php

class Bike extends Controller {

  function Bike()
  {
    parent::Controller();
    $this->load->helper('url');
  }

  function add()
  {
    $this->load->view('bike/add');
  }

} 

That’s a basic example of how I would do it.

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Colin Williams

Posted: 06 September 2008 02:57 PM

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I just have a single sub-folder in views like:

app/views/bike/bike_form.php
app/views/bike/part_form.php
app/views/bike/manufacturer_form.php
app/views/bike/bike.php
app/views/bike/part.php
...

And those are just fragments of the final pages that are rendered.

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ontguy

Posted: 06 September 2008 03:13 PM

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I gave this structure a try:

app/controllers/bike.php
app/controllers/bike/part.php

When I go to URL/bike/part
it gives me a “404 Page Not Found”

When I removed the file bike.php, it works.

Did any changes need to made to CI through extensions or otherwise for this to work?

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Colin Williams

Posted: 06 September 2008 03:22 PM

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Huh.. you’re right, ontguy. Guess we’ll need to use routes for this or rethink the structure. That’s frustrating, but it makes sense. Otherwise, CI would find bike.php and think “okay, lemme instantiate this Bike class,” then when it inevitably doesn’t find the “part” function, it would have to start over and look for a ‘bike/part.php’ file, and continue on. Guess that’s not such a stretch, but it’s obvious to see that this is not what’s happening.

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Posted: 06 September 2008 04:02 PM

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I’m glad it does the same for you
Good to know I’m going crazy.

A workaround to this maybe to extended Router.php (_validate_request) and have it check for the directory first then the file (I tried it and it doesn’t seem to work; the controller in the directory works but the controller doesn’t).

I found this in my search, the file directory name issue comes up in this thread: http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/46120/

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