controller inheritance

[eluser]louis w[/eluser]
Why wouldn't they be able to inherit? Just keep subclassing. Simple example:

Code:

/* Admin.php */

class Admin extends Controller {

    var $say_hi = 'Hello';

    function __construct() {
            parent::__construct();
    }
    
    /* Methods */

}

/* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */
/* Page.php */

require_once('Admin.php');

class Page extends Admin {

    function __construct() {
            parent::__construct();
    }
    
    /* Methods */

    function test() {
            echo $this->say_hi;
    }


}

When instantiated, the Page controller will have access to methods and variables set inside both Admin and Controller (CI). I often do soemthing like this where Admin would load all the libraries, configs, etc, and then page just loads what it needs.

You can also do this with models. I have one model called CRUD which contains all the db logic methods and then subclass it and add table specific info and have a fully featured crud model with like 4 lines of code.