use ion auth authentication for codeigniter in another controller

Question

I am trying to build a web application with codeigniter. I have installed Ion Auth as my authentication model.

The default Auth.php controller authenticates the user and

Answer 1

jcorrys approach should work. An alternative approach (which will give your entire application a great deal more flexibility is to use a modular layout - https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc

You will have to do a bit of fiddling to get it to play nicely with ion auth, but following the instructions in this question worked for me: Using Ion Auth as a separate module in the HMVC structure (have a look at the forks of ion auth on git hub - I think someone may have already done it for you)

This approach will allow you to access any method in any controller from anywhere in your application (even from a view if you need to) using this kind of syntax: modules::run('module/controller/method', $params);

This will essentially allow you to develop the existing ion auth controller into a user management controller which you can access from any other controllers you create (nice and dry).