News tutorial help needed

[eluser]Tim Brownlaw[/eluser]
Looking at CI 2.1.4...

If you look at the code for the CI_Model which lives under system/core/Model.php you will see in the following snippet...

Code:

class CI_Model {

/**
  * Constructor
  *
  * @access public
  */
function __construct()
{
  log_message('debug', "Model Class Initialized");
}

So calling the CI_Model constructor will simply log a message stating it's been initialized IF you are logging at the Debug level. Which is enabled if you set $config['log_threshold'] to be 2 or above in the config/config.php file.

Technically if a parent class has a constructor and it does "something", it should be called. But in this particular case it's not a show stopper.

So in this instance, I'd call it an omission, that may have occurred to keep things simple. But for completeness and consistency it should be included.