Controller Suffix

I like magic routing for testing but I don't like the idea of allowing controller direct access.

That's why we decided to build an admin module that regenerates routes.php file from what is defined in the database. This way we only allow certain routes and we block the others with 404.

I am still not sure if this is the best way but it seems very pratical so far.

That's an interesting take on it and I see the benefits if you have non-technical people working with you that need to have the ability to shut off endpoints and so on. Unfortunately, until CI4.0 rolls around, users can still access anything not in your routes.php by just figuring out the controller name.

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