How to use plugin from a model

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Considering that CI2.0 is not officially released yet and that many people still use CI 1.7 you should understand that plugins are not instantiated by CI, you can load a plugin using the loader or simply include it as per normal PHP, but you must also instantiate and assign the object to a variable yourself.

Code:

$this->load->plugin('a_plugin');

$this->a_plugin = new A_plugin();