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Helpers and the Department of Redundancy Department - El Forum - 01-17-2012
[eluser]ColonelChlorine[/eluser]
I'm in the midst of getting away from CodeIgniter's obsession on instantiating my libraries (sometimes I just want to include a class goshdarnit!). While trying to use helpers to help me accomplish this goal I came across something odd.
Helper files need to be in the "helpers" directory and must be suffixed with "_helper.php". Why the redundancy? I'll give the devs the benefit of the doubt that there is something else going on, but seriously - let's just scrap that and by convention anything in the "helper" directory is a helper.
I understand about the CI_ and MY_ issue, but this is for other helpers that don't conflict.
That is all,
Chlorine