Comments on: CodeIgniter model productivity methods

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:50:41 +0000

Yesdi, CI doesn’t use ORM at all, so you can have any attributes or methods in your models. Instead of ORM, CI uses ActiveRecord, which essentially is a query builder.

If you are more comfortable with ORM, then you might want to take a look at Kohana.

By: Yesdi

Yesdi — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:36:34 +0000

Great tip ! I’m a newbie to CI though I’ve worked with other MVC frameworks. My question - can I have variables in my model class that are not meant to be stored the db ? For example, in the code above - I’ld like to have a member variable called var $dbname=’users’ so that I dont have to put in the db name in each method. How can I do that - just make it a private member var ?

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By: Spir

Spir — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:38:18 +0000

that’s awesome, thanks for sharing this!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:42:07 +0000

That’s the nice thing about __autoload - you can create your own loading rules based upon class names. Anyway, I’m glad you finally got it working :)

By: gillbates

gillbates — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:57:53 +0000

and.. it works. Awesome!

So I modified the autoloader to only autoload classes with the prefix GILL_

function __autoload($class) {

//only autoload classes containing GILL_
if(stristr($class, ‘GILL_’)){
require_once(PATH_TO_LIBRARIES."$class.php");
}
}

Then I created GILL_MyModel.php in application/libraries containing the following class:

class GILL_MyModel extends Model

Then my models are defined as such:

class Tourmodel extends GILL_MyModel {

class Subareamodel extends GILL_MyModel

By: gillbates

gillbates — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:44:06 +0000

Bit of a problem with this… it’s also trying to autoload Codeigniter’s ‘Model’. I suspect (and I have read of it somewhere) that the Model class does not start with CI. Maybe I should make my own prefix and only autoload files that begin with my prefix?

By: gillbates

gillbates — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:41:19 +0000

I wrapped the code in and tags. That doesn’t work, I suppose.

Still had a few snags when I was trying to make it work last night (until they dragged me away from the computer). I’ll try to make it work today.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:01:07 +0000

Did you encode that piece of code into HTML entities?

Yes, models should be created/written just as you suggested and then loaded in the standard CI way.

By: gillbates

gillbates — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:05:27 +0000

gah! I keep losing my code. Oh well. As you can probably guess, what I meant to say was I created a class named MyModel that extends Model in MyModel.php. Then Tourmodel extends MyModel. Is this the correct implementation?