How to work with subdirectory controllers in CodeIgniter 4?

Question

I need help with using sub directory controllers in CodeIgniter 4.

I just can't make it work for some reason.

This is the URL for example: www.example.com/admin/dashboard

In the controllers folder, I created a folder named Admin, and a file named Dashboard.php.

I used this code in Dashboard.php:

namespace App\Controllers;

class Dashboard extends BaseController
{
    public function index()
    {

    }
}

I tried changing the class name to AdminDashboard, Admin_Dashboard, pretty much every logical name but every time I get a 404 error, saying:

Controller or its method is not found: App\Controllers\Admin\Dashboard::index

I know the file itself gets loaded successfully, but I think I don't declare the classname correctly and it keeps throwing me those 404 errors.

The documentation of CI4 isn't providing any information about what the classname should be called unfortunately...

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UPDATE #1

I managed to make it work by changing few things:

namespace App\Controllers\Admin;
use CodeIgniter\Controller;

class Dashboard extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {

    }
}

But now it won't extend the BaseController which has some core functions that I built for my app.

Any ideas to how to make it extend BaseController?

I must admit that I don't have much knowledge about namespacing yet, so that might be the reason for my mistakes.

Answer 1

As I imagined, the problem was that I didn't learn about namespacing. I needed to point the use line at the BaseController location.

namespace App\Controllers\Admin;
use App\Controllers\BaseController;

class Dashboard extends BaseController
{
    public function index()
    {

    }
}

Now www.example.com/admin/dashboard/ goes directly to that index function, as intended.

Answer 2

php spark make:controller /Subfolder/ControllerName