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never_had_a_name

Reputation: 93156

mvc components in codeigniter?

in yii i could have mvc components (acts like an own application). could i have this too in codeigniter?

eg. in SYSTEM/APPLICATION have a folder called COMPONENTS and in there i put stand-alone applications that would be a part of the application. components like ADDRESS BOOK, MAIL, TWITTER and so on. every component folder has folders like: models, views, controllers, config etc.

so a component model extends the application model which in turn extends system's (code igniter) model. the same goes for view and controller.

i've already got a lot of these components which i want to use in codeigniter. is it good idea to place them as i said in SYSTEM/APPLICATION/COMPONENTS or is there best practice for this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2007

Answers (2)

Phil Sturgeon
Phil Sturgeon

Reputation: 30766

You can do this in CodeIgniter using v1.7.2 or 2.0, but using Packages as Billiam suggested would not work and sadly he is just confusing you.

You are basically looking for a HMVC architecture and this can be provided with a system called Modular Separation.

That works with CodeIgniter 1.7.2 and I have patched it to work with the (still unfinished) CodeIgniter 2.0 branch on the link in the entry.

Upvotes: 2

Billiam
Billiam

Reputation: 2349

Not by default in CI 1.7.2, but 'packages' will be available in 2.0.

Added ability to set "Package" paths - specific paths where the Loader and Config classes should try to look first for a requested file. This allows distribution of sub-applications with their own libraries, models, config files, etc. in a single "package" directory. See the Loader class documentation for more details.

From: http://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter/src/tip/user_guide/changelog.html

Also, take a look at Modular Extensions - HMVC

Upvotes: 0

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