pulling CI into another system

[eluser]gtech[/eluser]
I recommend to read the

Adding Custom Session Data in the [url="http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/sessions.html"]sessions section of the userguide[/url]

Once you understand the guide you can add your own is_admin variable to the session,
so if the user logs in as an admin user you can set your is_admin variable to TRUE in the session.

you can check the variable when trying to access admin pages.



I would also read about Saving Session Data to a Database in the session guide for added security. once configured to use the database you shouldn't have to do anything extra.