Application structure question

[eluser]beemr[/eluser]
[quote author="Colin Williams" date="1216809540"]2 cheers for accessibility! Sheesh...[/quote]

I second the sentiment. Also, how accessible is it for you? 6 repetitive controllers or a half dozen Ajax requests?

I don't think you'd have to go too far astray from base CI to get what you need. Libraries can act as a portable MVC, if you will. Just instantiate the CI super object

Code:

$this->CI =& get_instance();

from within your library. From there, you can load models, helpers, other libraries, and views with

Code:

$this->CI->load->view('logged_in')

. Have your library's methods return views, and you will keep the impact on your controllers down to one or two lines.

Code:

$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->my_library;
$this->my_library->user_status();
$this->load->view('footer');