Auto completes in codeigniter

I have lots of auto completes like City, country, companies, brands, people names, etc. Now my team is currently giving each autocomplete a separate model in codeigniter. The issue i have is then each autocomplete has its own code. I want to make it temp开发者_StackOverflow中文版latized so there is only 1 code base for all auto completes and it pulls the autocompletes in and out dynamic.

Is it possible or is the way my team is doing it the correct way?

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Your CI models should be organized to reflect your domain, so in the case of cities, countries, companies and such, each are different entities and deserve a seperate model. More files does not mean it is less maintainable.

As for autosuggest, your model simply needs to deliver the data to a controller that will be called using Ajax. You can do the json_encoding of the data stream in the model or the controller, I prefer to use the controller.

So eventually yoiu hopefully have a single autosuggest plugin in the front-end that simply calls different controller URLs. These controllers know which model to use to get the autosuggest data.

This is a clean seperation of duties, and maintainable.