Question

I am having trouble trying to call CodeIgniter methods in my static functions, just using $this doesn’t work because its not in object context, the static keyword doesn’t work either. This an example of the code in my core model, the $table variable is successfully defined from another model like posts.

class MY_Model extends CI_Model {

    protected static $table;

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

    public static function find_all() {
        $this->db->select('*');
        $sql = $this->db->get(static::$table);
        return $sql->result();
    }

}

Answer 1

If $this doesn’t work you can get around this like this:

$CI =& get_instance();
$CI->db->...