Loading multiple models in a controller, which extend the same base class.

[eluser]drewbee[/eluser]
You can extend the base model class as many times as you like because it is only been declared once, but initiated many times.

Declared = file has been loaded through a require/include etc.
Initiated = class has been initiated into an instance of the class and assigned a var.

For your include, you simply need to check and see if the class has been loaded yet:
I believe class_exists checks against declared classes, so you should be able to use that:


replace:

Code:

include dirname(__FILE__)."/ma_model.php";

With:

Code:

if (!class_exists('MA_Model', false))
{
    include dirname(__FILE__)."/ma_model.php";
}

Now you should just have to put this on each of your files where you want to use multiple models in the same controller.