Modular Extensions - HMVC version 5.2

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Hi Michel-Ange,

In Modular Extensions version 5.2, get_instance() returns the CI application object (a singleton). Controllers access the CI application object by utilizing the PHP5 overload methods. This allows all Controllers to have access to any loaded libraries and models

The CI application object is not a controller itself.

If a library needs access to the current controller then you must specifically pass a reference to it.

The use of get_instance() is fine if there is only one controller (native CI) but is really just a lazy (over-abused) way of getting a reference to CI in most cases.

Also by passing an object reference to a library it does not specifically make it dependedent on CodeIgniter.