Question

Any ideas how to avoid adding 20 different require() statements to each one of my CI controllers?

As a follow up to my previous question about integrating Propel with my project, a more involved problem. I am trying to include a generated class into my application controller. Here is the code:

require_once('PolicytypeQuery.php');

class PolicyType extends CI_Controller {

    function PolicyType() {
        parent::get_instance();
    }


    function index() {
        $data = array();
        $data['policytypes'] = PolicytypeQuery::create()->find();

        $this->load->view('policytype_view',$data);
    }

}

The generated class depends on some base class, and I am getting an error that indicates that this base class is not already included somewhere:

[Sat Aug 13 16:22:56 2011] [error] [client 97.97.177.2] PHP Fatal error:
Class 'BasePolicytypeQuery' not found in
/var/lib/IPV/util/build/classes/vault/PolicytypeQuery.php on line 16

I would think that generated code would have the necessary require() statements also generated. However, it doesn’t appear so:

/**
 * Skeleton subclass for performing query and update operations on the 'policytype' table.
 *
 *
 *
 * You should add additional methods to this class to meet the
 * application requirements.  This class will only be generated as
 * long as it does not already exist in the output directory.
 *
 * @package    propel.generator.vault
 */
class PolicytypeQuery extends BasePolicytypeQuery {

} // PolicytypeQuery

Is there a Propel generator option to add require() statements into generated code? Or maybe I’m not autoloading Propel correctly in my project. To that end, I followed this tutorial on integrating Propel with CodeIgniter:

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Using_Propel_as_Model/

Per step 3, I am including Propel in autoloaded libraries. Should this be resolving my issue?

Answer 1

Yes, it should.

PHP has a facility called autoloading classes. I don’t know propel, but if it properly uses __autoload, you should not need to use any require anymore.