Administration of wizard (or step) style application

[eluser]andrewtheandroid[/eluser]
i dont feel im in a position to give advice about best practice or anything like that but in terms of implementation you could for your admin form just be the one form with the 5 views all at the same time or maybe it's read only at first then if they click "edit" the form will become "editable".

Or you could do as above if it's one form you could then just store this information and then use the same form for the admin and repopulate the form with the user's data. Then admin can then edit it there and then before committing. you could disable the javascript so the administator can see all the views.

Another option is to use styles and then use jquery to hide the elements for the user according to the login stage but then for the admin stylesheet show all..

edit: that way you can reuse all your methods and views