Routing controllers in subfolders using CodeIgniter

Question

since i want to separate the frontend and backend of the system. i have created 2 folders inside controllers as frontend and backend

Below is the structure of my controller folder

controller
 --frontend
   ---store.php
   ---processing.php
   ---profile.php
   ---authenticate.php
   ---register.php 

 --backend
   ---authenticate.php
   ---stats.php
   ---users.php
   ---property_manage.php
   ---register.php

i can access the functions by using

frontend/store/add
frontend/store/manage
......

backend/stats/sales
backend/stats/payments
.....

but i want to take off the frontend and the backend segments from the url.

I checked the routing feature in codeigniter but according to my knowledge i need to individually specify each route. Since i have about 12 controllers and each has around 10 -15 functions i might have to specify each and every function to the route.

is there any other efficient way to achieve using routing or any other way? (without using any htaccess)

score 26 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '17 at 04:26

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Do this:

$route['store/(:any)'] = 'frontend/store/$1';
$route['processing/(:any)'] = 'frontend/processing/$1';
$route['profile/(:any)'] = 'frontend/profile/$1';

Same for backend :

$route['backend/(:any)'] = 'backend/authenticate/$1';

You don't have to create each rule in routes.php for every function of the controller, rather one rule per controller will be enough as mentioned above.

URI Routing : CodeIgniter User Guide

$1 represent the first expression, here (:any) is the expression, you can have multiple expression on each rule, and expression is represented as $1, $2 and so on on the other side.

Similarly, (:num) will match a segment containing only numbers, (:any) will match a segment containing any character, (\d+) will match any digit, ([a-z]+) will match any alpha text.

edited Sep 10 '17 at 04:26

always-a-learner

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answered Dec 19 '12 at 15:15

hsuk

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thanks mate... works great.. so i need in define a route for each controller. can u please tell me what does $1 represent? – LiveEn Dec 19 '12 at 15:32
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$1 represent the first expression, here (:any) is the expression, you can have multiple expression on each rule, and expression is represented as $1, $2 and so on on the other side – hsuk Dec 19 '12 at 15:37
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(:num) will match a segment containing only numbers, (:any) will match a segment containing any character, (\d+) will match any digit, ([a-z]+) will match any alpha text – hsuk Dec 19 '12 at 15:39
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This will not work if the controllers have the same name (e.g. from his own structure: register.php and processing.php). – rzb Jan 02 '15 at 00:21
@rzb Do you have any working solution for that case? – Sam Tigle Jan 10 '20 at 16:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 25 '16 at 08:14

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For Front-End you can add this in routes.php:

$this->set_directory( "frontend" );

so in browser URL, there is no need to include "frontend"

edited Jan 25 '16 at 08:14

Gerard Rozsavolgyi

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answered Jan 25 '16 at 07:43

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '12 at 15:16

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You have to be able to differentiate the frontend from the backend somehow. Maybe set a route that forwards any uri with "admin" to the backend, and anything without "admin" to the frontend.

answered Dec 19 '12 at 15:16

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Routing controllers in subfolders using CodeIgniter

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