My Codeigniter Observations

[eluser]sl3dg3hamm3r[/eluser]
I think Spib's input about proper encapsulation, or let's say, a domain model is spot on. Of course, if you have a simple Web-Application with a few tables and not much business-logic going on, you might overcomplicate things like that.
But I just recently developed a shop with very specific backend, where the products are assembled with many different single items, I'd wish afterwards I had implemented a proper domain model. I ended up with a quite complicated associative array for the final order. Sure, it also works like that, but it has reached a complexity where I would go more into enterprise patterns and put it into a domain model, maybe even garnished with some data access objects, which keeps everything independent from the persistent layer.

Well, interesting thread anyhow, keep going