Question

I had a model that had an unrelated class defined inside of it.
I was prototyping and didn’t spend time to create it properly.
Now that the prototype was accepted by my end users, I’m revisiting and I would like to reorg my code properly. The class looks something like this:

   <?php

        class myclassABC 
        {

           private $_hostname;
           private $_password;
           private $_username;
           private $_connection;
           private $_data;
           private $_timeout;
           private $_prompt;

           public function __construct($hostname, $password, $username = "", $timeout = 10) 
           {

             $this->_hostname = $hostname;
             $this->_password = $password;
             $this->_username = $username;
             $this->_timeout = $timeout;
            } // __construct


           public function connect() 
           {
           } 

           public function dosomethingelse() 
           {
           } 

        }//end class

I’ve moved all this code into a separate file, and this file is now in my libraries folder. But i’m having problems figuring out how to properly instantiate an object in my model.
I tried:

        //pass all the data we need as an array of parameters.
        $params = array('_hostname' => '$ip', '_password' => 'password', '_username' => '');
        $hp = $this->load->library($classname,$params ); 
        $hp->connect();
        $data= $hp->dosomethingelse();
        $hp->close();

It’s loading the right class, but I’m getting the following error message:

Severity: Warning

Message: Missing argument 2 for HP5406_ssh::__construct(), called in
/var/www/m.racktables/system/core/Loader.php on line 1095 and defined

Filename: libraries/HP5406_ssh.php

Line Number: 22

Argument two is the password.
Sorry, this is my first attempt at using libraries with codeigniter.
if you could provide some suggestions, it’d be appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem is that the constructor was not expecting an array. Which is what I am passing, based on the example in the codeigniter manual under the libraries section. i changed my constructor to accept an array and now it works.
I’m going to post another question to see how I can pass individual parms.