extending the controller class

[eluser]Doodlez[/eluser]
Ok I can now call my functions as $this and don't have to call them using parent. It is late and it may be obvious but why the way I did it originally did I need to call the method as the parent and not class.

It may be naive but the way I did it and your tutorial suggest appear to be the same thing. Is it the way that CI uses the MY_ namespace internally or something like that?

I know I may not be wording this question well.