Email Library Issues

You have a form_validation rule which calls check_email() in the customers_model. The check_email() function not only loads the model in which it is defined (if you're lucky, this is a wasted call), then calls $this->customers_model->initialize() (which wipes out the email library, if it has been loaded, by setting $this->email = NULL), then proceeds to set $this->customers_model->email = $email, so you now have a string where the library previously would have been.

The only way you can access the email library from within the customers_model after doing all of that would be through get_instance()->email (or $ci = get_instance(); then using $ci->email->from() etc.). This is because the email library is normally made available to the model by way of the __get() magic method in CI_Model, but __get() won't be used if you've defined the property (which you've done by assigning it a value in both initialize() and check_email()).

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