Question

I’m trying to figure out why its showing the variable as a bool and not an integer like it should be.

The kow_auth config file is autoloaded.

library:

echo "<pre>";
echo "max_attempts:";
var_dump($this->ci->config->item('login_max_attempts', 'kow_auth'));
echo "</pre>";

kow_auth config file

http://pastebin.com/9KMEn4Uf

Answer 1

The problem is that you are passing the second parameter: kow_auth

It is trying to retrieve login_max_attempts from a array called kow_auth and that doesn’t exist on your config file.

You can create configurations like this:

$config['kow_auth']['login_by_username'] = TRUE;
$config['kow_auth']['login_by_email'] = FALSE;
$config['kow_auth']['login_max_attempts'] = 5;
$config['kow_auth']['login_attempt_expire'] = 60*60*24;

This way it should work with your second parameter.

Docs: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/config.html