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I have a quick question. But before I ask I will give a brief background of our current situation.

Right now we have a site that is running EE 1.7.0, which manages all of our front-end marketing pages, members, forum, etc (basic CMS stuff). Once a member logs in they are directed to our main application that is running CodeInigter 1.7.2. We’ve created custom EE extensions and database tables so the two systems can share sessions (going from EE to CI and vice versa without having to re-login every time). Our main application is quite extensive and is running CI’s Modular Extensions.

My question is this. We are looking to upgrade to EE 2.x. If we do this, is it possible to use the same CI instance for both? Can we install HMVC into CI that EE uses? Or do we have to do what we are doing now, but in this case have two separate instances of CI?

I have found a potential “hack” that might help but I don’t want to waste my time if its not even possible or will be more headaches than its worth.

I would love to use the same instance if possible. I think our app is way to complex to build a module within EE 2.x.

Thanks for your time!

😉  This led to an interesting discussion.  I was sure the answer was ‘no’, that’s just not ever going to work.  But I wasn’t sure why.  So I asked Pascal, who can make CI do backflips at will.  And he said a very clever dev could do it, but- and I quote- “And then they would curse.  A lot.”  In short, it would be far more trouble than it’s worth to try doing it.

So- it’s not exactly impossible.  But yea- more headaches than it’s worth.

If you ever did give it a try anyway?  I’d be very curious to see how it shook out.  Because I still can’t wrap my head around how it might work.