Help! OOP in CodeIgniter?

[eluser]ryepdx[/eluser]
I'm trying to change the Controller class so that all the classes that extend it automatically inherit a certain set of functions. For some reason though, this doesn't seem to be working. For example, I tried adding an index function to the Controller class, just to test things out. I made sure that the inheriting class didn't have an index function. I tried accessing the function and got a 404. Then I moved the function into the inheriting class and refreshed. The 404 went away and it worked.
After that I tried putting an echo statement at the end of the Controller class declaration to make sure I was editing the right file. Sure enough, the echo came back.

Has anybody come across this before? Do you know why this is happening? More importantly, is there any way I can accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish?
Thanks.

[eluser]ryepdx[/eluser]
Also, does anyone know how to change the code so that functions preceded by a *double* underscore *can* get served? Specifically, I'm trying to use the __call function in PHP5 to dynamically handle requests from the URL that have not been specifically hard coded into the classes.

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Hi ryepdx, Welcome to CI forums

Search the forums for MY_Controller and then for _remap()

[eluser]ryepdx[/eluser]
Got it! Wow, I'd read that part of the guide before too...
Thanks!

By the way, I noticed that the remap function only receives the method name. Is is possible for it to get the URL arguments too?

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
Again search the forums, this time for URI or uri->segment.

[eluser]ryepdx[/eluser]
Sweet! Thanks. I'm good to go now. :-)

Here's the code I ended up using to retrieve the URL arguments:
$args = load_class("URI")->segments;

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
The uri class is already available to your controllers, so there's no real point in loading it again.

[eluser]ryepdx[/eluser]
Got it. I saw on the post that I found that they were loading it, so that's why I did it.
The code now reads:
$args = $this->uri->segments;

Thanks again!