Class Constructors


If you intend to use a constructor in any of your Controllers, you MUST place the following line of code in it:

parent::__construct();
 
The reason this line is necessary is because your local constructor will be overriding the one in the parent controller class so we need to manually call it.

<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller {

       public function __construct()
       {
            parent::__construct();
            // Your own constructor code
       }
}
?>

 
Constructors are useful if you need to set some default values, or run a default process when your class is instantiated. Constructors can't return a value, but they can do some default work.