CI 3 & HMVC Issue

If you look in the MX/Loader and find the module() method (which is called when you use $this->load->module(); ) you'll see something like this:

PHP Code:

    /** Load a module controller **/
    public function module($module, $params = NULL)    
    {
        if (is_array($module)) return $this->modules($module);

        $_alias = strtolower(basename($module));
        CI::$APP->$_alias = Modules::load(array($module => $params));
        return $this;
    } 


To explain this code a little, assume that CI::$APP is going to be $this in your calling method, and as we see in the line above it, $_alias is the lowercase name of your module. So the loader loads the controller for your module and places the controller instance into CI::$APP->$_alias, so you can access the controller instance from $this->lowercase_name_of_your_module.

If you always pass lowercased strings to the loader, this behavior is actually very consistent with a standard CI installation. Almost anything you load becomes available on $this->lowercase_name_of_loaded_class, with the most common exception being helpers, which don't normally contain classes anyway.

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