In the video tutorials here I can see that MY_Model.php is placed in the core directory of my CI application just like MY_Controller.php would be.
My issue is that CI does not load models from the core directory. I have stepped through CI and found that CI is only checking the application\models folder for models, not the core folder (found on line 279 of CI 2.1.0 Loader.php file). This makes it so I cannot access MY_Model directly using $this->load->model('MY_Model'), though I can extend it just fine.
This makes me wonder why we are putting MY_Model.php in the core folder. Any model that is in application\models can be extended AND accessed directly, so why not put MY_Model.php there?
The reason for making MY_Model.php is extending Core model. Its not supposed to load using this->load->model('MY_Model'). Its already autoloaded. The aim of MY_model is making common method, properties for all model inside application/models without hacking the Core files. And if you have extended Core Model, you should write your application models with extending MY_Model not the CI_Model.
core\MY_Model.phpwere autoloaded then I wouldn't have make all of my other models extend it because its functions would already be available - ubiquibacon 2012-04-04 19:58