How do I include external Libraries in CodeIgniter?

Question

I\'m new to codeigniter, and I\'m trying to integrate amazon\'s FPS into my page. There are a bunch of libraries and models that go with Amazon FPS, which I would need inclu

Answer 1

Peng Kong of a3m http://code.google.com/p/a3m/ has a nice way of doing it with plugins:

Example twitter_pi.php

require_once(APPPATH.'modules/account/plugins/libraries/jmathai-twitter-async/EpiCurl.php'); require_once(APPPATH.'modules/account/plugins/libraries/jmathai-twitter-async/EpiOAuth.php'); require_once(APPPATH.'modules/account/plugins/libraries/jmathai-twitter-async/EpiTwitter.php');

/* End of file twitter_pi.php / / Location: ./system/application/modules/account/plugins/twitter_pi.php */

In controller

$this->load->plugin('twitter'); $twitterObj = new EpiTwitter($this->config->item('twitter_consumer_key'), $this->config->item('twitter_consumer_secret'));

There is one problem with this in Codeigniter 2.0 there are no plugins

Answer 2

There is nothing stopping you from directly including classes and working with them however you would in a vanilla PHP setup. If it works in PHP it will work in CodeIgniter.

include(APPPATH.'libraries/Amazon/FPS/Interface.php');

Answer 3

Oh yes codeigniter is nice and has also support for many librarys please have a look here http://www.haughin.com/code/ Include the Amazon service like this $this->load->library('s3');

Answer 4

@user3526 Note that $this->load->library('classname') will create an instance of that loaded class, not just file (class) include.