extending base controller

[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
[quote author="vecima" date="1253050737"]sorry for dragging up this old post, but is there any reason why your base controller needs to be in the application/libraries folder?

I have a Base_Controller that extends Controller, and it's in my application/controllers folder. all of my other controllers extend Base_Controller and it works fine for me.

am I doing something wrong?[/quote]
The original Controller class is a default CodeIgniter library, just like other classes like Form Validation, Database, Image Manipulation, etc. If you want to replace or extend one of these, CodeIgniter automatically looks in your "applications/libraries" folder for a class name with the "MY_" (or other specified) extension in front of it.

Also by putting your extended Controller class into the controllers folder, the scheme will look exactly like a standard controller (IE "class Extended_controller extends Controller"), and possibly may be accessible via normal URI strings.

It's really just best practice to leave it in the Libraries folder in the future. Honestly I'd make the time to change out the code again also. Most text editors have a find/replace option which would make the time for each file very limited.