Md Emran Hasan (phpfour) - Latest Comments in Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

u3nu3n — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04:55 -0000

Thanks a lot~~
your extension save me lot of time! :)

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Abbas Mandal — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:04:02 -0000

Thanks Emran for this blog.Though Iam not a guru like some of you here,but i like the framework.
Iam a newbie to CI.Thanks again.

Abbas

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Ryan Blunden — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:46:12 -0000

The only way I could get this to work in Code Igniter 1.7.0 was to replace the Model.php in the system/libraries directory as the above methods didn't work for me.

This could be because I'm using Matchbox 0.9.4 which hasn't been updated to include a lot of the new code in Loader.php yet...

But apart from that, this is such a time saver and a brilliant piece of kit to add to your Code Igniter arsenal.

Thanks heaps for creating it and looking forward to seeing the additional features you've got planned.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Software_Miami — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:52:09 -0000

Emran and others,
Thanks for the innovative work Emran. The comments also proved extremely helpful.

@Michael Wales: Extremely helpful and encouraging as always (esp. in the CI forums).

@Jacob & @stensi: Thanks for the additions.

@ryan & @joshdavey & @abe: Good call all around. To come on someone's forum and sound so arrogant shows a lack of taste, respect and manners.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Carlos — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:32:25 -0000

Why not using HMVC & Ignited Record & write a page module (like haughin' did) instead of hacking the core?
Saves even more time ^^

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Abe — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:26:27 -0000

Forgive the personality analysis, but your seemingly irate attitude towards the author necessitated commentary.

Do bear in mind that you're a guest on this website, not an unpaid asshole.

Your message is true, but your delivery is definitely flawed. I'd recommend trying to be a little more polite, or you'll keep getting comments from people like Ryan. While I agree with what you said, the way you came across was pretty overwhelmingly full of douchebaggery. I have not personally visited the CakePHP forums but if they're full of people such as yourself who display a genuine "inability" to be polite, I don't plan on visiting anytime soon.

It is rather apparent that you're a CakePHP fan, but don't turn it into some form of irrational zeal. Step one would be to resist all caps. Step two would be to assume that other people aren't as brilliant as you, and don't have the MIT license memorised. Step three would be to perhaps quietly suggest that the author credit the source that shows definite similarity to his code snippets, instead of full-force attacking him.

Thanks for the info, Emran. I was trying to extend Model.php, and I eventually just popped a customised copy of "Model.php" in my APPPATH/libraries folder and overrode the default Model file altogether.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

phpfour — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:33 -0000

Thanks Jacob for pointing this out !!! I've been waiting for long to have CI support this. I will write a separate post with the update and a few additional features I planned long ago (probably post date: first week of Nov).

Everybody, please follow Jacob's two comments if you're using CodeIgniter 1.7.0.

Cheers!

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Jacob — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:11:18 -0000

Thanks for the reply, Emran! I hadn't seen your reply when I posted my fix below.

What I've done (in addition to the fix below) is rename it to MY_Model.php, placed it in system/application/libraries, updated the constructor to class MY_Model extends Model, and that's literally it. It's all working so far - I'll post back if I hit another snag :)

It may well be something they've fixed in these latest updates to CI, so you may wish to try it again, and if it works for, update your instructions accordingly.

Thanks for your contribution - it looks like it will be very useful!

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Jacob — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:30:36 -0000

Well, as always after posting a 'help me!' question, I've worked it out.

Replace Line 196 of MY_Model.php:

$this->fields = $this->db->field_names($table);

with

$this->fields = $this->db->list_fields($table);

as field_names() is deprecated, and clearly in 1.7.0 does not work!!

Hope this helps someone else :)

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

phpfour — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:23:27 -0000

Michael's suggestion actually doesn't work, as I mentioned in my reply to him. You'll have to replace the actual Model.php in system/libraries to make it work. Hope this helps.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Jacob — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:02:19 -0000

I'd like to try using this, and I've tried it using Michael's suggestion, eg renaming to MY_Model etc, but I keep getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method CI_DB_mysql_driver::field_names() in C:\home\codeigniter\system\application\libraries\MY_Model.php on line 196

and I just can't work out how to get around it... any help would be great!

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

haran — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:20:10 -0000

Great work. It saves us a lot of time.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Mariano Iglesias — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:40:02 -0000

@joshdavey: why do a lot of people INSIST ON NOT READING before posting? Check the previous messages, this was SOLVED long ago.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

joshdavey — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:00:29 -0000

@Mariano Iglesias

You really want him to re-name "query(), "getNumRows()", "$this->data" and other method/property names? These are standard method names used by pretty much every database abstraction layer in the history of programming.

Saying phpfour isn't respecting the MIT license is a bit harsh. He's just looking at other libraries for inspiration and building his own. Nothing wrong with that.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

phpfour — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:34:23 -0000

@Ryan: I fully agree with Mariano and would misjudge the CI community in the same way, seeing your response.

What Mariano did was just to remind me something that I forgot, although in a bit rough way, but he had no bad intention in mind and I thanked him for that.

We're all community enthusiastic, let's not create divisions and point fingers.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Mariano Iglesias — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:13:55 -0000

Having been (and currently beeing) on several open source projects I know this is not unheard of. But people like Ryan on his comment above (showing that his brain consists only of derogative terms) certainly do not help the projects.

For the sake of CI, I hope you have more of the "other kind" of people. You know, people that KNOW something about something, and HELP the project back, for a change.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Ryan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:39:03 -0000

@Mariano Douchebag Boy

Go away you miserable creature. Take your nastiness to a cake forum.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

stensi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:22:49 -0000

Although after testing, that doesn't work o.O

Leaving out the CI_ and putting it in application/libraries allows it to run perfectly fine.

I wonder why CodeIgniter doesn't allow the CI_ override for the Model?

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

stensi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:00:54 -0000

As PHPFour's model is not an extension but a replacement, here's how I would set it up.

Open PHPFour's 'Model.php' and do the following to it:

Change:

class Model {

To:

class CI_Model {

Change:

function Model()

To:

function CI_Model()

Save the file as 'Model.php' and place it in:

application/libraries

This is the proper way to replace core libraries. Source:
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/core_...

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Storyteller — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:51:52 -0000

@Emran

Great work, Thats what I am saying since you've showed me the code last year sometime. But unfortunately I have left using CI.

@Mariano
Thanks for pointing out that method names were borrowed from CakePHP, but that clearly didnt disrespect MIT license model. It is not a derived work but written from scratch, did you note that? I appreciate your observation but I still think you were a bit rough at this one. Anyway, thanks. No hard feelings.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

Mariano Iglesias — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:54:56 -0000

@taewoo: before you post, READ. That works on every level. He DID say he FORGOT to credit CakePHP until I reminded him, so you should double read the comments before you call me anal.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

taewoo — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:47:58 -0000

Good one.

@mariano - Damn dude. Relax. He did thank CakePHP for their inspiration. NO need to be so anal.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

pengekcs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:51:00 -0000

Nice one there. Thanks for posting it. Small, but nice addition to CI. ;)

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

phpfour — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:28:36 -0000

@Mariano

Thank you very much for reminding me the source. It is my bad that I completely forgot to mention the credit to CakePHP's model implementation.

I actually created this in the middle of last year and have been using from then. The day I posted it here, I was actually rushing - so the due credit was missing. I'm going to update the post with a mention to this.

And btw, I've only taken inspiration for the methods and variable names. The code utilizes the Active Record library of CodeIgniter. Also, it doesn't burden the developer with the associations.

Thanks a lot.

Re: Extended Model for CodeIgniter

phpfour — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:25 -0000

@Wales,

Thanks for the appreciation. I actually tried not to hack into the core but the overloading of base CI classes didn't work with the Model class.

If you can get it working in any way, I'd be more than happy to follow that and update the install steps accordingly.

Thanks a lot.