sub controllers

[eluser]hailwood[/eluser]
I am wondering if it is possible in code igniter to have sub controllers?

By this I mean.

I have my message controller.

inside the controller I have "pages(functions)" called sent/settings/view/ ect

so

example.com/messages/sent
example.com/messages/settings
example.com/messages/view

this works fine.

But now I want to add one called lists,

This is ok except.

The lists one needs to have its own methods. such as create/edit/view

So the url would be

example.com/messages/list/create
example.com/messages/list/edit
example.com/messages/list/view

What is the best way to handle this situation?

I have a lists model so I could have

Code:

class Messages extends Controller {
  ...
  function list($func){
    $this->load->model('lists');
    $this->lists->$func();
    ...
  }
  ...
}

But I really dont want to do it that way. as it makes it difficult for handling params and doing other actions.

I could do

Code:

class Messages extends Controller {
  ...
  function list($func){
    $this->load->model('lists');
    switch($func):
      ...
    endswitch;
    ...
  }
  ...
}

But I dont want to do that either as the function could get quite large.

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
No, but you can create a folder in Controllers called 'Messages', and in there create a Controller called 'List'. If that has a method called 'create', "example.com/messages/list/create" works.

Note that you can only go one level deep, CI doesn't support any more levels.

[eluser]hailwood[/eluser]
Can I have both a folder and a controller with the same name?

[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
You can use [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html"]routes[/url] to simulate this type of behaviour. You can create a lists controller and use a route like

Code:

$routes['messages/list/(:any)'] = 'list/$1';

This makes any link with messages/list/(something) actually run the list controller and the (something) method. Also you may want to check out [url="http://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc/wiki/Home"]Modular Extensions[/url] for HMVC structure and cross loading controllers.

[eluser]mike7418[/eluser]
It is possible IF you use iframes for the different blocks.

[eluser]pickupman[/eluser]
Iframes would load any remote or local page. The iframe blocks don't load based on the URI in the address bar but rather than the source attribute of the tag.