Codeigniter extending extended MY_Controller

Question

I have strictly followed the how-to article by Phil Sturgeon, to extend the base controller. But I get still some errors.

My 3 classes:

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Answer 1

You need to require the Public Controller in your MY_Controller

// application/libraries/MY_Controller.php
class MY_Controller extends Controller{
    public function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
    }
}

require(APPPATH.'libraries/Public_Controller.php');

You get the error because Public_Controller was never loaded. Doing this would allow you to extend from Public_Controller

I like what you are doing because I do that all the time.

You can do this also in your MY_Controller when you want to create an Admin_Controller

// application/libraries/MY_Controller.php
class MY_Controller extends Controller{
    public function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
    }
}

require(APPPATH.'libraries/Public_Controller.php'); // contains some logic applicable only to `public` controllers
require(APPPATH.'libraries/Admin_Controller.php'); // contains some logic applicable only to `admin` controllers