Using model in a model

[eluser]oribani[/eluser]
[quote author="oribani" date="1253578351"][quote author="BrianDHall" date="1253571137"]@oribani - The only thing I don't understand is how CI is limited, limiting, or fails in some way to support inter-model communication? People incorrectly refer to get_instance() as a hack - it's a very useful, and necessary, feature for any OOP-style framework like CI.
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You're right, but it's just that it would be nice to be able to do the same thing you do in a controller:

$this->load->model('foo');

Having the extra code suggested at the top of this thread seems a little unnecessary and thus "hackish". That's why I abstracted it into a helper so the model load is a one-liner, which is more clean. Code that is specific to the underlaying CI framework is best hidden away if possible IMO.
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I'd like to add that although CI doesn't PREVENT you from doing things like this, it doesn't prevent you from doing much of anything - it's just PHP, after all.

However, there's a difference between that and SUPPORT. As I hope most people will agree (per most latter posts on this thread), inter-model communication is a good and necessary thing. CI should SUPPORT that as encouraged, good practice. It should be achievable without a hack IMO.

:-)