Modular Extensions - HMVC version 5.3

[eluser]newkiwi[/eluser]
Hi wiredesignz

I note that in http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/115465/

You said

When using Modular Extensions 5.2 the controller and CI are separate objects so the profiler (using CI) will not see a controller class variable unless you specifically pass a reference.

Maybe something like this in your controller constructor

Code:

CI::instance()->data =& $this->data;

I assume this is still the case in 5.3


I hit the same issue in 5.3 + CI2.0 - extended controllers as
MX_Controller -> MY_Controller -> User_controller
with app "global" vars in MY_Controller e.g. $this->data
but cannot access MY_Controller $this->data from User_controller with $this->data or from libraires with $this->ci->data.


Q #1 Is this by design?


Q #2 To work around this I use a "shared" library that I run from User_controller construct to store all global app varies and initialization, [transfered them from MY_Controller]
- this way any extended Controllers like User_Controller and other libraries can access these variables

Is this the way to do it rather than storing global vars in the base (MX and MY) controllers?? ....and the more "theoretically" and "puristically" correct approach??