Modular Extensions - HMVC version 5.3

[eluser]newkiwi[/eluser]
Hi bryantAXS

All I did was to have a library (e.g. called App) in \libraries) and move all global vars and initialization into that library class.


I load this library up in the constructor to MY_Controller or other base controllers.

From there, I just access this using the $this->ci->app-> reference (from other libraries) and $this->app-> from any controller or Extended controller.

The advantage of this is
(1)on instantiating the library we can trigger auto init routines via that library's constructor.

(2) that we can place common display routines, e.g. get flash messages and sidebar viewes etc in this common library.

This is vaguely similar to an approach in e.g. VB6 or .Net where we call a startup core 'application' class that calls other forms, starts up DB etc etc

I foun this better than the $CI::->data = & $this->data approach.
And more disciplined.

But it is a bit more effort than just sticking global app vars in the base Controller