Difficulty with third party library

EcotypeS · September 2013

I'm trying to use a third party library to detect mobile devices and libraries. http://mobiledetect.net
I downloaded it, and after I failed to get it to load, I renamed the file to Mobile_detect.php and the class to Mobile_detect to ensure that I was not violating a Fuel naming convention, but to no avail. (I've also tried keeping the original capitalization and accessing it based on a Codeigniter example that supposedly works).
It is in application/third_party since it was apparent that Fuel was looking there (I had tried it in application/libraries first to no avail)

I'm trying to access it from the application/views/_variables/global.php via


$CI =& get_instance();
$CI->load->library('Mobile_detect');
$detect = new $CI->mobile_detect();
if ($detect->isMobile() ) {$vars['is_mobile'] = true; $vars['is_computer'] = false; }
if ($detect->isTablet() ) {$vars['is_tablet'] = true; $vars['is_computer'] = false; }

The error appears to be on


$CI->load->library('Mobile_detect');

and the error is
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home4/fnpsdevo/public_html/fuel/application/third_party/fuel/Loader.php on line 215

and line 215 is


return CI::$APP->$_alias;

Any clues?

admin · September 2013

Does it work if you just put it in your libraries folder?

You may need to add the package path if you are using the third_party directory.
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/loader.html

EcotypeS · September 2013

Nope -- so, I ran a test --- I tried to load a library (in libraries) that I know is good (Fuel's Validator). Same error. In libraries, I also get another error first

Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: Validator
Filename: fuel/Loader.php
Line Number: 206

And then

Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home4/fnpsdevo/public_html/fuel/application/third_party/fuel/Loader.php on line 215

I think this must have something to do with my trying to load it from
application/views/_variables/global.php
and not from a controller

Thanks

admin · September 2013

I think this line is incorrect:

$CI->load->library('Mobile_detect');
$detect = new $CI->mobile_detect();

You want something like this:

$CI->load->library('mobile_detect'); // I would change the casing of the class to Mobile_detect
$detect = $CI->mobile_detect->getDetectionType(); // or whatever method

The load library automatically creates a new instance and attaches it to the $CI object so you don't need to use "new".

EcotypeS · September 2013

That Worked! Thank you!

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