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Switched to 4206 from 5025 just to test.
Seems issues with config loading are now fixed. That’s very good.

Found a bug. Modular controller method is running twice.

/modules/test/controllers/index.php

<?php
class Index extends Controller {
  function index(){
    print 'CALL'."<br>";
  }
}

prints

CALL
CALL

@Sam, If you have a controller class named Index it’s constructor will be run twice as you see, because CI uses index() as the default entry point to the controller and of course it is the constructor also. This is a CI thing, and not related to ME.

A best practice question.
Is the best use of ME to load it in a controller? (controllers/front.php)
Or in modules/front/controllers/front.php

Or just call the module in controllers/front.php

@wiredesignz, thanks! Forgot about PHP4 constructors… again :(

@freshface, There is no best practice. Try all methods, see which works for you.

Hi, I’m having a problem with the modules::run . My structure is as follows -

modules

- admin
—controllers
—- admin.php

- news
—controllers
—- admin.php
—- news.php

Using modules::run to call a method in news/controllers/news.php, this works fine but when I try using

modules::run('news/controllers/admin', $data, 'adminPanelBlock');

Unable to run the requested module: news/controllers/admin->adminPanelBlock

Thanks for any help.

And without controllers?

modules::run('news/admin', $data, 'adminPanelBlock');

No that doesn’t work although it generates a different error

Unable to locate the requested file: application/modules/news/methods/adminPanelBlock.php

@Stylec, Try using lowercase method names.

No that doesn’t work either. Still same errors as before.

@Stylec, Please post the controller code.

admin/views/index.php

<!-- Admin Home Page -->
<h1>Overview</h1>
<div id="left-block">

    <?php
    foreach ($modules as $row)
    {
        echo '<div id="block-management">';
        echo '<h2>' . $row->name . '</h2><p>';<br />
        echo modules::run('news/controllers' . '/admin', '', 'adminpanelblock'); <br />
        echo '</div>';<br />
    }<br />
    ?><br />
        <br />
</div

news/controllers/admin.php

class Admin extends Controller {
        
        function Admin()
        {
            parent::Controller();
        }
        
        function adminpanelblock()
        {
            echo 'News :: Admin';
        }
    }

Thanks.

Hi Stylec, Try:

<?php
    foreach ($modules as $row)
    {
        echo '<div id="block-management">';
        echo '<h2>' . $row->name . '</h2><p>';<br />
        echo modules::run('news/admin', '', 'adminpanelblock'); <br />
        echo '</div>';<br />
    }<br />
    ?>

That generates

Unable to locate the requested file: application/modules/news/methods/adminpanelblock.php

Does that suggests that news/controllers/admin is correct?

The error suggests that modules::run has loaded admin.php but can’t locate adminpanelblock() and has tried to load a module/methods library before failing.

Are you sure there aren’t any other admin.php controllers in the search path?