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 included to make the appropriate calls.

How do I include them in CodeIgniter?

I tried placing the entire Amazon folder inside the system/libraries directory, and then tried including libraries with $this->load->library( 'Amazon/FPS/Client' ); However, I run into problems with the relative path there, because Client.php contains the statement require_once ('Amazon/FPS/Interface.php'); ... which is in the same folder.

There has to be a better way to do all this - can anyone please help?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

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 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');