Advice for master detail best approach with users

[manlio]

After you help me to solve my previous problems, now I'm facing how to design a master detail approach for users.

I'm still learning a lot of the basics so I'm sorry to bother you again.

In a part of the website I had a structure like this

home

-courses

--course1

--course2

--course3

and I had the page courses (master) that was based on a template "courses" from which I could go from a map marker field based directly to the children page (detail).

Now I want to setup something similar but this time I'm dealing with users so they are in the

admin->access->user.

Now I have created a standard page instructors that should act as a master page and I would like to know which is the best way to deal with children. Should I create an instructors child page called instructor and than pass variables?

I was thinking to use Url segements (to have something like mywebsite/instructors/instructor1 etc.. but I'm not sure If they are the right solution here and I have no experience with that).

So many option and I'm not sure where to go. Could you point me to the right direction?

Thank you in advance.

[horst]

IMHO: URL segements (to have something like mywebsite/instructors/instructor1) is the best option for this.

[manlio]

Ok, thank you horst. In this case I could write the master and detail page in the same instructors page with some conditions to check if there is an URL segment. I'm right?

[horst]

Yes, this is right. You need to enable url segments for the instructors template and check for conditions at first. If no url segment is set, display a instructors list with (url-segment)-links to their children pages. If a segment is present, validate it! and if valid, display the childpage of that instructor.

[LostKobrakai]

Also don't miss to throw an 404 error, if there are more url-segments than there should be and if the used segments are not valid.

[manlio]

Thank you both now I understand better how to proceed.

Thank you guys!