Question

I’m experiencing a problem with the paths of a config file for a module called ‘auth’ (which contains the tank_auth authentication library).

Every function in the ‘auth’ module loads the ‘tank_auth.php’ library which loads the tank_auth config file in application/modules/auth/config/tank_auth.php:

function __construct()
{
    $this->ci =& get_instance();

    $this->ci->load->config('tank_auth', TRUE); //<--- HERE IT IS!!

    $this->ci->load->library('session');
    $this->ci->load->database();
    $this->ci->load->model('tank_auth/users');

    // Try to autologin
    $this->autologin();
}

In another module, I insert the following call to a function in a view within the ‘auth’ module:

<?php modules::run('auth/cp');  ?>

This gets me the error

An Error Was Encountered
The configuration file tank_auth.php does not exist.

I solve this by changing within the __construct function in Tank_auth.php, the path from ‘tank_auth’ to ‘auth/tank_auth’.

function __construct()
{
    $this->ci =& get_instance();

    $this->ci->load->config('auth/tank_auth', TRUE); // <--- ADDED module name

    $this->ci->load->library('session');
    $this->ci->load->database();
    $this->ci->load->model('tank_auth/users');

    // Try to autologin
    $this->autologin();
}

My question is why doesnt the auth function cp that is being called from another module sees the config file within the ‘auth’ module? Shouldnt I be able to just use config('tank_auth', TRUE) without adding in the name of the module?

Answer 1

Thats the way HMVC module is designed.

$this->ci->load->config('tank_auth', TRUE);

This will only search in the default config folder. See the “Features” section of the official CI HMVC page where it is mentioned in the context of controllers.