Modular Extensions - HMVC version 5.4

[eluser]ericrjones1[/eluser]
@wiredesignz: Being the smug developer that I am, I followed your solution provided with one exception. I used the following:

Code:

$this->form_validation->CI = $this;

Based upon my PHP version information, I would have assumed that $this would be passed by reference since $this is referring to my controller ( an object - in PHP 5 all objects are passed by reference automatically, right? ).

Code:

$ php -v
PHP 5.3.8 (cli) (built: Sep 28 2011 17:34:36)
Copyright (c) 1997-2011 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.1.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by Derick Rethans

However, when using the form_validation_helper function validation_errors the conditional statement on line 1054 says that the $CI->form_validation object isn't set even though the $CI->load->is_loaded('form_validation') returns 'form_validation';

Dumping the $CI object, I can see the following loaded classes, but no form_validation object.

Code:

protected '_ci_classes' => &
        array
          'session' => string 'session' (length=7)
          'encrypt' => string 'encrypt' (length=7)
          'form_validation' => string 'form_validation' (length=15)

So the gist is:

Code:

// Doesn't work ( mine )
$this->form_validation->CI = $this;

// Works ( yours )
$this->form_validation->CI =& $this;

I feel like I am totally missing something. If you can, will you please explain to me why my code doesn't work.

Thanks for all your help.