Help with helpers

[eluser]Mahn[/eluser]
Greetings,

Without editing anything in the system folder, I'm trying to create a helper that simplifies the core language_helper. I want to make a similar function, but where it echos the value, instead of returning it.

So instead of: echo lang('general_welcome_message'); I could write phrase('general_welcome_message'); to make everything a little easier for the designer.

Here's the code I've got so far.

Code:

if ( ! function_exists('phrase'))
{
function phrase($phrase)
{
  $CI =& get_instance();
  $phrase = $CI->lang->line($phrase);

  echo $phrase;
}
}

This obviously doesn't work, even though the code is copied for the core helper, because this is located in the application folder.

So my question is, how do I make this work?

[eluser]PhilTem[/eluser]
- In which file did you save that code snippet?
- Have you loaded the appropriate helper file?

[eluser]Mahn[/eluser]
I've saved it under application/helpers. I know this would probably work if I was to save it in the system folder, but I'd rater keep all of my changes in the application folder.

What helper file do I need to load? The language helper?

[eluser]PhilTem[/eluser]
You probably want to call the file MY_language_helper.php, save it under ./application/helpers and load it via

Code:

$this->load->helper('language');

Then it should work.

[eluser]Mahn[/eluser]
Does using the MY prefix ignore the default language helper and use the custom one instead?