Organizing the Site!

[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
Quite a read, I hope I can cover most of it .

First off welcome to CI. You seem to have done a terrific amount of homework.

You can create subfolders for your controllers. Realize, however that this will add another segment to your url, and you're limited to a depth of one. In the same way you can create subfolders in the views folder. For views, you then have to pass in the folder/viewname (these can be nested as deep as you like) . I have actually never tried it with models, but I assume it's possible.

For a very large site you might want to consider one of the community modular extensions, such as Matchbox or HMVC (should both be on the first page of the ignited code section).

One change I personally make every time, is change the router to allow me to omit the directory if the directory and controller name are the same. I can fork over that code if you're interested .

To simulate the backend, I put an admin controller into each folder where I will need one.

My views folders have the same names as the controller folders, with an admin subfolder where needed. I also always have a folder for 'global' view elements.

And just to illustrate:
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controllers (f)
images (f)
images.php ©
upload.php ©
admin.php ©
views (f)
images (f)
someview (v)
admin (f)
someadminview (v)
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