CodeIgniter + Doctrine + Smarty?

[eluser]TheActionCombo[/eluser]
I really like CodeIgniter for its simplicity and clear documentation, but its models, caching, and templating are very weak or non-existant.

I was wondering if anyone has had any success using Doctrine and Smarty with CodeIgniter and how well they integrate together.

Also, what would you recommend for Auth? FreakAuth or Zend_Auth?

Thanks.

[eluser]Sarfaraz Momin[/eluser]
Hello,
I agree with you but since CI was made to be simple it did not have many fancy things which many other Frameworks has that made them fully loaded. But people like me are here with CI becuz it is not fully loaded. It just has everything required and it can just get anything plugged into it. Well for the Auth Freakauth is very promising and is under active development. I would still recommend you to check your requirement and select the Auth Lib. I have used most of them in variety of my projects. Some did require Freakauth for its features. Some just the simplicity of ErkanaAuth and some were requested to use ReduxAuth which again is a good Auth lib available for CI.

Well you can visit the following links to find the information to plug Smarty and Doctrine with CI.

Doctrine - http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Using_Doctri...e_Igniter/
Smarty - http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Smarty/

Apart from this you can always visit the Wiki to find the libraries that are made available for CI

Wiki - Wiki

Have a good day !!!

[eluser]sikkle[/eluser]
You can use doctrine and smarty no problem at all, most of us will not use it because of the overhead.

ORM could be good or bad, depend of what you workin on.

Smarty is mostly the same, if you need it it's ok, use it.


If overhead is not an issue realy, doctrine and ci work pretty well together, two great tools

see ya around.