Member management is already a built-in feature of licensed versions of ExpressionEngine: 2.0 will continue to carry that torch, of course.

I wouldn’t hold out for anything.  Do it now! 

Perhaps you could develop your app in EE rather than CI.

John Fuller - 28 April 2008 08:35 AM

I wouldn’t hold out for anything.  Do it now! 

Perhaps you could develop your app in EE rather than CI.

Haha, whilst development with EE would be a dream… I require the flexibility of CI in this instance. Especially since expansion in the future may lead us into areas which EE may not be best suited.

I am extremely sorry for my ignorance here, but I am struggling to see how EE integrates with CI from a CI developers perspective. Could someone please give me an example of where having CI developed application could benefit from installing EE on top?

CI is a framework, so if course it could be used to build something entirely incompatible with EE.  The shared libraries and resources however make it easy and efficient to develop an app that is fully compatible with a full-fledged CMS.  For a CI app to truly be integrated with EE, it won’t change the basic fact that for two applications to work together, they must be designed to do so.

This is fantastic news—i’m tempted to say a dream come true, but that would be too much, so i won’t.

but i have a question—in what way is EE going to be built on CI? what i mean is perhaps better explained by an example.

if i am developing a CI application, could i just drop in different EE modules, foregoing others? for example(fake code):

“load membership module”
“load wiki module”

{if member access == 1}

{embed wiki="mainwiki" template="bluebird_3col"}

{/if}

...so that EE modules can be invoked in a controlled context. is that the idea? or would it mainly be loading the entirety of expression engine, which would then handle the activation of hooks, extensions, modules, plugins, etc.?

thanks,

ward smith

It’s almost Summer, which is going to be a little bit like Christmas or a birthday around here Sorry had to bump the thread.

tip-ee, summer is more than just a single day. But we’re all looking forward to 2.0.

No pressure here. It’ll be ready —when it’s ready!
Is it soup yet, lol.

Come to Florida; it’s friggin’ summer alright… 88+ and humid all day/night. *ugh*

As an aside I’m hoping to develop some backends like this in ee2:
http://flickr.com/photos/daverau/2575254141/
http://flickr.com/photos/daverau/2575254135/

Will this be fairly easy in ee2?