Writing Admin/User/Public controllers to insure authentication

I'd strongly recommend registering an autoloading function in a pre-system hook. You can say goodbye to include/require statements and stop worrying about inheritance.

Most of this thread seems like a lot of conversation devoted to avoiding the following line of code:

PHP Code:

include_once(APPPATH.'core/Admin_Controller.php'); 


What's so horrible about an include_once statement above your controller class declaration that indicates the location of the custom controller class you are extending?