Comments on: CodeIgniter – Loading Models and Database in One Hit

By: Scott Gruer

Scott Gruer — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:06:13 +0000

@Sam – Lazy connecting to DB? :) The standard $this->load->database() is still pretty easy for the lazy people hehe ;) Or simply putting the database class in the autoload part of the config.

@Colin – My bad.. you’re right about the dashes in the pseudo model names. I’ll change them to underscores right away. Thanks! :)

@Rob G – Using the pseudo names to shorten long names is very valid. In my latest project I took care of that issue by having some very generic reusable models/classes, then created instances of those classes (at which point shorter names could be introduced).

By: Rob G

Rob G — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:58:31 +0000

I use the pseudo name quite a bit mostly because the model names are sometimes fairly long and I like to use a shortened version when working with them.

Either that or you just sometimes run into common name variable issues and its good to customize a bit more in the code. Still good practice to name it something close though to the model name.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:37:13 +0000

Sometimes, in certain controllers, my model name clashes with a local variable, so I have to rename it. The dashes in your pseudo model names is throwing me. No way that would work!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:38:24 +0000

Actually you can achieve lazy connecting to DB:

$db['default']['autoinit'] = FALSE;