Using Zend Framework with CodeIgniter
If you ever wanted to integrate CodeIgniter and Zend Framework, you might have come across this tutorial by Daniel Vecchiato.
Whilst Daniel has done a great job demonstrating the possibility of using the two frameworks together, concerns have been made: do we actually need to use hooks?
As I understand it, hooks are used to extend the core functionalities of CodeIgniter (as explained in the user guide). Obviously Zend Framework and CodeIgniter are two different systems and there is no intention for us to extend CodeIgniter’s core functionality with Zend Framework.
Using hooks can be dangerous as it’s system-wide, and it modifies the system behaviour.
What I have done is to simply use CodeIgniter’s library structure to load the Zend Framework resources. Below is the tutorial.
