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loading a helper in a library - El Forum - 10-10-2009
[eluser]tokyotech[/eluser]
I wrote my own DateForm library that creates HTML dropdowns of the months and days. I tried to do $this->load->helper('form') in its constructor but an error was given saying "load" was not defined. I suppose this is because only controllers are allowed to load helpers. But isn't it cumbersome to have to load the form helper every time I want to load my DateForm library?
loading a helper in a library - El Forum - 10-10-2009
[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
Code:
library class...
{
private $ci;
function __construct()
{
$this->ci =& get_instance();
if (! function_exists(form_open))
{
$this-ci->load->helper('form');
}
}
}This should allow your DateForm library to be independent, and will load the form helper on its own if it isn't already loaded.