I’ve discovered phake and it’s great. But I cannot get it to work with code igniter. You seems te be the only response to that conundrum for google. Hurray! But alas, your links do not work. Could you provide some help for my problem?

PS: greetings from France.

For an authentication function, let’s say it’s attached to a User model (I’d assume). You could setup your function as a static function – public static function authenticate(). Then, in the controller that processes the post from your form, you could call “if (!empty($_POST))” and then include the static call to authenticate – “User::authenticate()” – inside that if/then block.

When your model executes the authenticate() function, you will have access to your post variables, just make sure to use codeigniter’s input class by declaring a variable that references the CI instance at the beginning of the authenticate() function – “$CI =& get_instance();” – then referencing “$CI->input->post()” to grab your posted variables.

If you have a need to access information over the basic queries that PHP ActiveRecord gives you, I’d say build out functions in your model to handle that.

To do that, you’d just create a standard public function, and then reference the model using self::find( ) or something to that effect.

I’m a firm believer in Skinny Controllers/Fat Models, so all of your processing/logic should go in to your models when necessary and your controllers should only act as routers of requests and information to the views.

Does that make sense? ]]> http://beau.frusetta.com/2011/07/07/codeigniter-php-activerecord/#comment-1733 sherwin Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:48:36 +0000 http://beau.frusetta.com/?p=1208#comment-1733 looks like you’re doing the query in the controller, not the model. are you no longer using the model? i’ve been trying to see examples of how the model is implemented. from the activerecord site, they aren’t using methods in the model class. if you are using the model class with, could you share a controller and model example? thanks.