[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
I'm also starting to think the MVC approach may not be the way to go, as there's no clear cut between what goes where... Maybe there's a reason 99% of forums are done using procedural?
Also, as for making it so that it works with CI only (in the mean time) is asking for trouble, is it not? As soon as you start building it on top of CI, using CI features, you make it harder to port to another framework.
This is one benefit of doing it all in object... It would effectivly become a library which can be dropped in, as pretty much everything else is framework specific
As for where you should put a method like get_thread... I would put that in the thread model.
I came accross a similar dilema a few days ago, I had the following database table
Code:
accounts
users
account_users
Getting a single user obviously (to me atleast) went into the user model, but I was unsure where to put the get_users (for a specific account) method.
In the end, I put it in the account model, and done a join there, purely for the reason it seems more natural when writing it
Code:
$this->account_model->get_users();
vs
$this->user_model->get_users($account_id);
Not sure if anything I just said really helps you, but I hope so
