Question

I read some other posts here on stackoverflow about passing parms to a class library (for example, How to pass multiple parameters to a library in CodeIgniter?) and I also read the user manual under the libraries section.

What I’m wondering is if it’s possible to pass parameters as individual variables and not as an array?

My class – which I want to use outside of my codeigniter solution- look like this:

 <?php

     class ABC
     {


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


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

{
    set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '/var/www/phpseclib');
    include('Net/SSH2.php');

    $this->_hostname = $hostname;
    $this->_password = $password;
    $this->_username = $username;

} // __construct

    public function connect()
    {
    }

    public function dosomething()
    {
    }

I know I can do something like :

   $params = array('_hostname' => $ip, '_password' => 'password', '_username' => '');
$this->load->library($classname,$params );

But I do not want to use arrays because this class will be reused by non CI solutions.
I’ve tried reverting to using a standard include() statement. So the code looks like:

      set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'var/www/myCIapp/application/libraries');
      include_once('libraries/'.$classname.'.php');

But it’s complaining saying that it cannot find the include file. The specific message is:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening
‘libraries/HP5406_ssh.php’ for inclusion
(include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear:var/www/myCIapp/application/libraries/’)

Filename: models/ss_model.php

Line Number: 88

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading…

Answer 1

A simple way of doing your include could be dome using the CI APPPATH CONSTANT:

include_once(APPPATH.'libraries/'.$classname.'.php';

This CONSTANT is set in the index.php by CodeIgniter so you know it’ll always be pointing to your Application directory.