Calling a model from another model?

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
Hi XedinUnknown,

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I hate to revive dead threads ...
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Your intuition is correct - it's bad form to revive old threads, as it pings a bunch of people that have long since demonstrated their lack of interest in this thread, possibly this forum. Please start a new thread in preference to reviving any thread that's been inactive more than a month.

... CI's creators think it is useless to call another model's methods from within a model, and thus have designed it in a way to make it difficult to do so.

I haven't seen anything that explicit, but I expect the logic is inverted - it's difficult to facilitate this, and inspires laziness in the application designer, consequently they didn't bother trying to wrangle the framework to provide this functionality.

So I'd really like to know how to invoke a model's method from within another model.

I would humbly suggest that you are approaching this problem with a solution already in mind - and consequently trying to make that solution work.

Instead, again offered as a humble suggestion, I think you may want to reconsider your application design.

Perhaps describing, in broad terms, what you are trying to do would be helpful.

This is as opposed to describing how you want to do something and then demanding the framework allows it.

Please start a new thread, describing the nature of your problem from the beginning.