custom sections

I want to make different sections for my site where each section’s layout differs slightly with the other ones. Because of this, the wordpress pages wouldn’t cut it for me. I am looking for a way to redirect users to custom php files.

e.g. my theme folder could look like this
theme/section1.php
theme/section2.php
theme/home.php
theme/header.php
theme/index.php
theme/footer.php
…

and my URIs for them could be
mydomain.com/section1/
mydomain.com/section2/

I was thinking of using a simple php script at index.php like this:


if( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/section1/' ) {
include( './section1.php' );
} elseif { $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/section2/' ) {
include ( './section2.php' );
} else {
include ( './home.php' );
}

home.php would be the homepage.
section1.php and section2.php would be my section files.

Would this be a feasible way around it?