Does CodeIgniter have plugins / extensions / modules?

Question

I am looking at few PHP frameworks and noticed that they all offer re-usable, community-contributed code in various forms:

but I can't find anything for Code Igniter (I saw in this SO post that Code Igniter used to have plugins that were replaced by helpers, but when I google for "Code Igniter helpers" or "Code Igniter plugins" I can't find any repositories).

What is the name for Code Igniter community-contributed and reusable libraries? Can you share a link to their main repository?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '13 at 16:15

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You can have a look at sparks and HMVC.

answered Mar 12 '13 at 16:15

That's more like it :) They seem to be calling these plugins "packages", hence why I was struggling to find something. The list of featured packages looks a bit shy (http://getsparks.org/packages/browse/featured). Is it an impression or is there less to re-use (or not as easily) with the `CodeIgniter` world (compared with `Symfony` or `CakePHP`) ? – Max Mar 12 '13 at 16:34
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You are correct. In CodeIgniter world it does not exist something powerful like symfony's bundles ( _I'm not familiar with CakePHP_ ). From my point of view the main cause for this is [EllisLab](http://ellislab.com/), who refuses to use the _new and shiny_ things from PHP world, like namespaces, composer, re-usable libraries, etc. The community tried in the past to update CI codebase, but EllisLab refused most of those changes. – Alexandru Guzinschi Mar 12 '13 at 16:46
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Interesting, especially when you see that `CodeIgniter` has almost as many forks (2035) as `Symfony` (2093), leading to think that community input would be important. Intriguing I must say. – Max Mar 12 '13 at 17:52
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I imagine they have refused the changes because they do not want codeigniter to compete with expression engine. – PrestonDocks Aug 03 '13 at 11:33
Hence the reason why they're being very stupid. Look at wordpress! I bet they're jealous. – Antonio Max Aug 15 '13 at 22:15

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '13 at 16:22

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Also checkout their forums too.

The previous name plugin within codeigniter didn't really mean the same thing as plugins for Cake or Bundles for Symfony

answered Mar 12 '13 at 16:22

dakdad

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Thanks for the wiki page but most the links it contains refer to "how to" documentation rather than reusable libraries (although I agree there are some). – Max Mar 12 '13 at 16:30

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 12:53

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check this one awesome codeigniter there is a list of different resources for CodeIgniter

answered Jan 25 '17 at 12:53

Vytautas

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