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extending CI_Loader fails in php4 - El Forum - 11-05-2007

[eluser]Arjen van Bochoven[/eluser]
I know php4 is end-of-life at the start of next year, but it might still take a long time for isp's to make the move to php5.

I ran into the following problem, I need to extend CI_Loader to accomodate a function that loads views from an arbitrary filepath:

Code:
class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader {

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**

     * Load View by path

     *

     *

     * @access    public     * @param    string

     * @param    array

     * @param    bool

     * @return    void

     */

    function view_fp($view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)

    {

        return $this->_ci_load(array('path' => $view, 'vars' => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars), 'return' => $return));

    }

}

This works fine in php5, the problem is that the function is not available in php4 as $this->load->view_fp();

The only solution I could come up with is tangling with

Code:
/system/codeigniter/Base4.php

I changed CI_Loader to MY_Loader

Code:
class CI_Base extends MY_Loader {

    function CI_Base()

    {

        // This allows syntax like $this->load->foo() to work

        parent::MY_Loader();

        $this->load =& $this;

Does anyone have a better solution?

thnx

Arjen