Loading an advanced module's model from another advanced module's controller

pierlo

How to do it properly?
I need to show rows taken from various module's models ... say from the blog module, my own 'twitter' module etc

but if i do

$this->load->module_model('twitter', 'tweets_model');

I get this

An Error Was Encountered

The configuration file development/twitter.php and twitter.php do not exist.

admin

That's the correct syntax. Are you sure those are related? That error message has to do with loading in a twitter config file. Perhaps you are extending a base controller that is trying to load in that config file?

pierlo

the controller in which i'm trying to load the models extends Fuel_base_controller
the twitter model extends Base_module_model

pierlo

I found where the problem is,
Inside my twitter model i'm loading the config
$this->config->load('twitter');

but apparently this is not needed at all... but why?

How do i load the twitter.php config file inside modules/twitter/config then?

admin

Try $this->config->module_load('twitter', 'twitter');

pierlo

So basically, it looks like I can't load a config file from the module's model: i have to load it from the controller, then i see no errors...
But why? It would make total sense that the model loads the config file autonomously ... or am i doing something wrong??

What the hell i'm pulling my hair on this!!!

This is the controller OUTSIDE of the 'twitter' module (part of another advanced module)

require_once(FUEL_PATH.'libraries/Fuel_base_controller.php');
class Akademie extends Fuel_base_controller {


	function __construct()
	{
		parent::__construct();
		$this->load->module_model('twitter', 'tweets_model');
	}
	
	
	function featured()
	{
	
        $tweets = $this->tweets_model->get_latest_tweets();	
	}
	
}

This one gives that damn error!!!
But if i do the same thing from the 'twitter' controller inside the twitter module, all goes fine...

pierlo

Solution

So,
In the end I moved the $this->config->load calls to the controllers that need to load the model. But I found out that if you want to load the configuration file of a model outside of the current module, you have to add the 4th param to the config->load function like this

		$this->config->load('twitter', FALSE, TRUE, 'twitter'); 
 

which is the 'module' parameter.
Hope this helps someone...