codeigniter: extending common controller

Question

I\'ve read all the post I found regarding this issue but nothing works. I\'m using Codeigniter 2.02 in a LAMP with Apache2.2 and PHP5.3.2

I\'m trying to create a common

Answer 1

Take a look at this post from Phil Sturgeon:

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2010/02/CodeIgniter-Base-Classes-Keeping-it-DRY

The key is using the native autoload as explained in his post:

/*
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Native Auto-load
| -------------------------------------------------------------------
| 
| Nothing to do with cnfig/autoload.php, this allows PHP autoload to work
| for base controllers and some third-party libraries.
|
*/
function __autoload($class)
{
    if(strpos($class, 'CI_') !== 0)
    {
        @include_once( APPPATH . 'core/'. $class . EXT );
    }
}

NOTE

As a note, you'll want to put all of your "base" controllers in the core folder for CI2+