Using Eloquent ORM and EventDispatcher with CodeIgniter

database.php

/*
 * Install the following via composer:
 * 	"illuminate/database": "^5.2"
 * 	"illuminate/events": "^5.2"
 * Add require_once('./vendor/autoload.php'); to config/autoload.php
 * Add this to the end of your database.php file, or your config/ENVIRONMENT/database.php file as needed:
 */

use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;
use Illuminate\Container\Container;

$capsule = new Capsule;
$capsule->addConnection(array(
	'driver'    => 'mysql',
	'host'      => $db[ENVIRONMENT]['hostname'],
	'database'  => $db[ENVIRONMENT]['database'],
	'username'  => $db[ENVIRONMENT]['username'],
	'password'  => $db[ENVIRONMENT]['password'],
	'charset'   => 'utf8',
	'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
	'prefix'    => $db[ENVIRONMENT]['dbprefix']
));

$capsule->setEventDispatcher(new Dispatcher(new Container));
$capsule->setAsGlobal();
$capsule->bootEloquent();