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Database Connection - El Forum - 02-10-2011
[eluser]stewartf[/eluser]
Wondering how to connect to a database within a custom library. I attempted to use $this->load->database() which returned this : Undefined property: Cataloglib::$load.
So the question is, what did I do wrong?
Database Connection - El Forum - 02-10-2011
[eluser]stewartf[/eluser]
I added ' extends CI_Controller ' to the class and that worked. To take it a step further, is this a good practice?
Database Connection - El Forum - 02-10-2011
[eluser]cideveloper[/eluser]
I do it this way
Code:
public function __construct() {
$this->CI =& get_instance();
}
public any_other_function(){
$this->CI->load->database();
}This is the way I have seen it done in most other big project using CI
Database Connection - El Forum - 02-10-2011
[eluser]stewartf[/eluser]
Very nice. Thank you.
Database Connection - El Forum - 02-10-2011
[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
(Libraries shouldn't extend the controller)