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Hello
i'm quite new to CI, but i've a question regarding my first site i'm writing.
Basically, I've got a USER and a TEMPLATE class
so i wrote a Model 'User' and a model 'Template'.
In my User model, i have a field 'template' which in the db is stored as the template_id.
Now, what i want, is for the 'template' field to not contain the template_id but contain an instance of the template class with all my fields.
Now, what i did, is in my 'User' model, in the 'load_entry' method,
Code:
$template_id = $row->template;
$this->load->model('Model_template', 'template' . $template_id);
$this->('template' . $template_id)->load_entry($template_id);
$this->template = $this->('template' . $template_id)->getInstance();
My little issue, concerns the CodeIgniter way of loading a model ...
personnaly i would have done so that the load->model method returns an instance of the model, ...
So what i did was add a getInstance() method in all my models (i should modify the model class ^^ so they inherit it ^^)
it basically does a return $this;
I haven't found much info about my type of issue, maybe i've done what everyone else is doing ? or is there a better CI way to do this ?
Thank you.
