Custom classes in CodeIgniter

Question

Seems like this is a very common problem for beginners with CodeIgniter, but none of the solutions I\'ve found so far seems very relevant to my problem. Like the topic says I\'m

Answer 1

If you have PHP version >= 5.3 you could take use of namespaces and autoloading features.

A simple autoloader library in the library folder.

The User object in the model dir. ( models/User.php )

And instead of new User... new models\User ( ... )

function get_all_users(){
    ....
    $arr[] = new models\User(
    $row['login_ID'],
    $row['login_user'],
    $row['login_super'],
    $row['crew_type'],
    $row['login_name']
    );
    ...
}

And in controller just make sure to call the customautoloader like this:

function index()
{
        $this->load->library('customautoloader');
        $this->load->model('admin/usersmodel', '', true);            

        // Page title
        $data['title'] = "Some title";
        // Heading
        $data['heading'] = "Some heading";
        // Data (users)
        $data['users'] = $this->usersmodel->get_all_users();