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Muqito
Muqito

Reputation: 1399

Custom Controllers in CodeIgniter

I don't know if this is a duplicate, I couldn't find anything. I'm sorry.

Alright, so I've made a couple of classes like this:

abstract class Bank(){}
class HB extends Bank(){}
class NO extends Bank(){}
class BankController(){}
class Contract(){}

and I'm using them like this:

$contract  = new Contract();
$bank      = new HB();
$bankC     = new BankController($bank);
$bankC->setContract($contract)->processContract()->sendRequest();

My question is, where do I put the BankController? Because I don't really wanna put them in the controller folder cause I don't want to access them through the URL. What would you guys do? Or do you create a new folder?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2438

Answers (2)

tomexsans
tomexsans

Reputation: 4527

You could create a Custom core controller:

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/core_classes.html

OR you could create a library if you would not want it on the url:

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/creating_libraries.html

on the application/libraries directory create a bank.php

or you could create a folder like bankfolder/bank.php

class bank()
{

  public function setContract()
  {
     //
  }

  public function processContract()
  {
    //
  }

  public function sendRequest()
  {
    //
  }

}

then on HB COntroller

class HB extends CI_Controller
{
  public function __construct(){
    parent::__construct();
    $this->load->library('bankfolder/bank');
  }

  public function index()
  {
    $this->bank->setContract($contract)->processContract()->sendRequest();
  }

}

This is just a sample and not a working code of yours

Upvotes: 1

Bananenspin
Bananenspin

Reputation: 189

You can make a controller function private by starting the name with a underscore. So for example Contract would be accesible if you placed it in the controller folder but _Contract would not. You will still be able to use it within your controller file itself if you might need that one day.

Upvotes: 1

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