Integrating a CI app with EE2
Development and Programming
Hi all, we have a client that we’ve built a CI app for and they now want to manage content on their public site. Rather than create a half baked custom CMS using the CI install the app is built on I’m thinking about using EE2. Question is - can I simply drop my app into a new a new folder within /system or is it not that simple… do I need to maintain two copied of CI (one with my app, one with EE2) in order for this to work???
TIA!
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Hi, Nathan. No idea. 😊 Moving to the Development forum for additional community support.
Nathan, did you want a unified user / session management between the CI app and EE?
not at all though it’s something I might consider further down the line. I just want to be able to quickly and easily add content management to the public facing site, at present this is delivered as a bunch of mostly static view files from CI. Primarily CI is ised to deliver the app (an online training application) and associated web services and admin for the client so it would be nice to separate the two a little… if I need any integration I suspect I could deliver it with a bespoke plug-in or extension that does some kind of lookup on the CI DB tables.
Gotcha. Have you seen this regarding multiple apps on a single CI core? It may be worth testing this way:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/managing_apps.html
Yea, that looks like what I need to do… I guess the question is… is EE2 a real CI application in this sense or is the base CI install hacked about in such a way that this simply wouldn’t work. Maybe someone from the Ellis Lab team can pitch in on this?
It’s a full version of CI.
The main issue I’ve had porting CI libraries to EE2 modules is the Session class which EE overloads. But if you’re not planning on using EE templates and modules as a wrapper for your application, and run the two applications side by side, then you won’t have that problem.