Using Codeigniter in Zf2

Question

I have an project that is used by many users and it's written in Codeigniter. I'm very happy with my application but I'm getting lost with Codeigniter because of the functionality of the framework and my application is getting too big for Codeigniter (that is what I think).

I want to go from Codeigniter to Zend, but the application is too big to begin all over again because there is still more functionality to come.

I don't know if someone has experienced or tried it, but does anybody know if it is possible to integrate Codeigniter into Zend as an module and migrate in steps to the Zend Framework 2?

Sorry for my bad english by the way :-)

Answer 1

Having experience with small and medium-scale projects with both CodeIgniter (CI) and Zend Framework (ZF), I can tell you that using one framework over the other will not solve any problem you might be having.

If you are looking for the added functionality provided by the ZF components, such as a ready-made class for Date or the Form verification class, know that you can use ZF components in Code Igniter. You will need to create a special class in CI that will jumpstart the ZF class autoloader. From there you can simply include ZF classes and use them as if you were inside a ZF application.

See http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/02/21/using-zend-framework-with-codeigniter/ and http://fr.slideshare.net/samsonasik/codeigniter-using-third-party-components-zend-framework-components for more details.

Answer 2

"Integrate" means you want to put your app running on CodeIgniter withing ZendFramework. So basically you changed nothing and there's no much sense of doing so.

You perhaps could consider porting your app from CI to ZF, but that will require rewriting of your code. But I'd first try to find out what the bottleneck in your app really is and ensure that you will benefit from the switch