Question

I’ve just started looking at hooks today not 100% sure what I’m doing wrong but I’m getting an error when I try and use the $ci object in my function.

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Trying to get property of non-object
Filename: hooks/language.php
Line Number: 12

My hooks file looks like this. It’s in the hooks directory in my application folder.

class Language{

    var $ci;

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

    function get_language(){
        echo $this->ci->session->userdata('language');
    }
}

I need to get the value in the session to use in my function. Am I not supposed to do it like this?

Thanks you!

Answer 1

In the Base4/5.php file the get_instance() function is written and it is conditionally loaded so it won’t be present until after it is loaded. And that’s the reason its giving error.