How to have a separate admin section?

thojanssens1
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:07:32 +0000
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I’m building my first Phoenix app and need a little guidance.

Say I build a quiz maker.

Admin users may create questions and answers;

Visitors of the website can answer the questions.

I ran the following command to create my first context:
mix phx.gen.html Quiz Question questions text:string

But what confuses me, is that I will have two clearly distinct sections of my website, with two different layouts: a layout and templates for admins, and a layout and templates for the visitors.

Most of these generated files such as the templates to list the questions, create/edit/delete a question, and so on should only be accessible by an admin user.

Also, the template to view a question show.html.eex will be different for an admin and a visitor: the visitor will have a nicely displayed question (with different html), while the admin will have a rather raw template, using the same layout as the layout used for listing questions and editing questions.

All of the admin templates will have a basic layout, while the templates for the visitors will have a layout with a nicer design.

The command above generates for exemple:
lib/quiz_maker_web/templates/question/show.html.eex
lib/quiz_maker_web/templates/question/form.html.eex
...

While I need something like:
lib/quiz_maker_web/templates/admin/question/show.html.eex
lib/quiz_maker_web/templates/admin/question/form.html.eex
lib/quiz_maker_web/templates/guest/question/show.html.eex
...

I think my requirement is a pretty basic one, but I don’t know the best way to achieve it. Any help is very much appreciated!

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