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<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> ›
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Creating Ancillary Classes
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<h1>Creating Ancillary Classes</h1>
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<p>In some cases you may want to develop classes that exist apart from your controllers but have the ability to
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utilize all of CodeIgniter's resources. This is easily possible as you'll see.</p>
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<h2>get_instance()</h2>
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<p><strong>Any class that you instantiate within your controller functions can access CodeIgniter's native resources</strong> simply by using the <kbd>get_instance()</kbd> function.
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This function returns the main CodeIgniter object.</p>
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<p>Normally, to call any of the available CodeIgniter functions requires you to use the <kbd>$this</kbd> construct:</p>
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<code>
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<strong>$this</strong>->load->helper('url');<br />
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<strong>$this</strong>->load->library('session');<br />
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<strong>$this</strong>->config->item('base_url');<br />
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etc.
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</code>
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<p><kbd>$this</kbd>, however, only works within your controllers, your models, or your views.
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If you would like to use CodeIgniter's classes from within your own custom classes you can do so as follows:</p>
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<p>First, assign the CodeIgniter object to a variable:</p>
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<code>$CI =& get_instance();</code>
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<p>Once you've assigned the object to a variable, you'll use that variable <em>instead</em> of <kbd>$this</kbd>:</p>
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$CI =& get_instance();<br /><br />
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$CI->load->helper('url');<br />
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$CI->load->library('session');<br />
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$CI->config->item('base_url');<br />
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etc.
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</code>
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<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> You'll notice that the above get_instance() function is being passed by reference:
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<br /><br />
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<var>$CI =& get_instance();</var>
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<br /><br />
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This is very important. Assigning by reference allows you to use the original CodeIgniter object rather than creating a copy of it.</p>
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