Question

I have a site using CI version 2.1.3 running on a xampp install locally. The code has been put in a git repository.
I cloned the code into a directory on another machine (also running xammp install with identical paths).

Now on the ‘other machine’ it refuses to load the CI_Controoler class, giving the error message;

Fatal error: Class 'CI_Controller' not found in C:\dev\www\my_site\system\core\CodeIgniter.php on line 244

I have added some code to system/core/Codeigniter to check what is going on. This is…

// Load the base controller class
require BASEPATH.'core/Controller.php';

function &get_instance()
{
        if (file_exists(BASEPATH.'core/Controller.php')) {
            echo 'file exists<br />';
            if (class_exists('CI_Controller')) {
                echo 'class exists<br />';
            } else {
                echo 'no class<br />';
            }
        } else {
            echo 'no file found<br />';
        }

    return CI_Controller::get_instance();
}

The resulting output is…

file exists
no class

Fatal error: Class 'CI_Controller' not found in C:\dev\www\my_site\system\core\CodeIgniter.php on line 244

So it is finding the class, but not loading it, any ideas why??

Answer 1

As usual, fault is with sleepy developer!
I enabled full logging in config and found out it was throwing an error regarding the database class; which was due to me having a typo in the database config file.

Changed it and now all is fine.