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Tamik Soziev
Tamik Soziev

Reputation: 14798

How to create two parent controllers in Codeigniter?

I want to create two parent controllers: one for admin and one for user site. They have to extend a regular Controller class but each of them has to do different things.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2778

Answers (2)

CodeGodie
CodeGodie

Reputation: 12132

This is pretty easy. Do the following:

  1. Go to the following directory: your_ci_app/application/core/ and create a php file called MY_Controller.php (this file will be where your top parent classes will reside)

  2. Open MY_Controller.php and add your multiple classes, like so:

    class Admin_Parent extends CI_Controller {
    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function test() {
        var_dump("from Admin_Parent");
    }
}

class User_Parent extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function test(){
        var_dump("from User_Parent");
    }

}

  3. Create your children controllers under this directory your_ci_app/application/controllers/ . I will call it adminchild.php

  4. Open adminchild.php and create your controller code, make sure to extend the name of the parent class, like so:

    class Adminchild extends Admin_Parent {

    function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    function test() {
        parent::test();
    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Phil Sturgeon
Phil Sturgeon

Reputation: 30766

I wrote up an article showing how you do this.

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

You need to create an __autoload() function in your config.php or directly include the base controller above the class definition.

Upvotes: 5

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