Design Logic Help Requested

WireDesignz HMVC might be useful for you. You can keep all your separate apps in different folders (each with their own views and controllers).

Your 'main' app would just have to deal with permission to access, and calling the separate controllers within the HMVC framework.

Will make testing much easier, keep separation for your apps and it is very robust once you get the hang of it. Building an app like this on the back of a codecanyon example is not a great idea, should definitely be doing this from scratch.

You should also move the settings for each module into their own tables. Much easier to control that way. So module 'projects' reads 'project settings' from a projects_settings table. Much cleaner.  

Good luck,

Paul.

Paul! I finally checked out WireDesignz HMVC at the end of last week, and I am so very happy with it!! It is working out perfectly! Thank you so much for directing my attention that way. I think that this modular approach is perfect and aligns well with the way the databases are put together already. Unfortunately...I can't separate the "settings" into their own tables. Believe me, I know that would make a boatload more sense, but they are basically hooked on keeping them the way they are. (it's already driving me batty that all the tables are named in singular and every ID field matches it's table....ie: 'feature_id' instead of just ID).

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I've already gotten so much further with HMVC than I had previously. That's not to say I have more of my project completed, but I'm definitely off to a more stable start. So far, I have basic CRUD operations available (whether they'll all be utilized and/or available for each kind of user can be decided with my role logic) for 8/10 of my major tables! I'm thrilled that I'll be able to basically build 'widgets' of sorts and combine them in whatever ways needed. Thank you so much!

The only thing I'm having trouble with is my stupid .htaccess file, but I think that's coming down to some folders having different group permissions than others and since I'm using MAMP as www, I just have to fix some permissions and I'll be good to go there.