Module support?

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"The reason why they wouldn't touch it is because they don't want their application to be out of date after six months."

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"So please, let the new versions of Codeigniter come out slowly and with concern for the clients who are potentially going to be stuck with old versions."
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AMEN!!! Couldn't agree more...

And I also agree on the HMVC part.

I wonder if people actually have used HMVC. It can be very useful for almost everybody. Let's take a simple example...

We need to have a main menu and we need it in almost all of our pages. Where do you create this menu? For sure not in every view. I certainly hope not. So when creating your page you want to insert the 'menu view'. This view has nothing to do with the content of the rest of your page. Where do you fill it with the required data? In some model I hope, which you call from some controller. And what controller would that be? Your own base controller (my_controller), because you need this view in almost every page? And you use a base model for it? Right? Wrong!

Yes, that is how I do it now in CodeIgniter and I do not like it a bit.
I would like to inject to my 'main menu' in a view as a separate component which it's own logic and data, and that is exactly what you can do with HMVC. The component has its own model and controller. Call the mainMenuController for its view and parse its output in your page. Voilá.

I really would like to know how I could do this better. Tell me...

How do you insert a main menu in your pages?
Where is the code?
How would that better be than the HMVC approach?

And NO, you do not use a library (or module) for your application specific main menu!!

Cheers. My € 0.02

R.