HMVC - Calling view (and other resources) that is located in another module

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
There are currently two ways of setting up modular application design in CI. Matchbox and Modular Extensions (ME).

I've been testing Modular Extensions and AFAIK it is the only currently maintained solution to allow nested modules (aka HMVC - getting one module's resources from another without an extra call through the http interface which would load up another CI instance, etc...) - see the wiki for complete explanation.

Matchbox provides a way to organize files modularly but does not allow pulling one module's resources from another.

So, Modular Extensions provides the ability to do a modular application *and* it allows HMVC.

Wick allows you to gather another controller's output without a call through the http interface, but (as wiredesignz notes) does not currently integrate with any modular design. see this page of the wick thread that addresses some of the issues around integrating Matchbox and Wick which are both Zacharias Knudsen productions.