<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>CodeIgniter User Guide : Auto-loading Resources</title> <style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' /> <meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' /> <meta name='robots' content='all' /> <meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' /> <meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' /> </head> <body> <!-- START NAVIGATION --> <div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div> <div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle.jpg" width="153" height="44" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div> <div id="masthead"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.6.1</h1></td> <td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- END NAVIGATION --> <!-- START BREADCRUMB --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td id="breadcrumb"> <a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> › <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> › Auto-loading Resources </td> <td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td> </tr> </table> <!-- END BREADCRUMB --> <br clear="all" /> <!-- START CONTENT --> <div id="content"> <h1>Auto-loading Resources</h1> <p>CodeIgniter comes with an "Auto-load" feature that permits libraries, helpers, and plugins to be initialized automatically every time the system runs. If you need certain resources globally throughout your application you should consider auto-loading them for convenience.</p> <p>The following items can be loaded automatically:</p> <ul> <li>Core classes found in the "libraries" folder</li> <li>Helper files found in the "helpers" folder</li> <li>Plugins found in the "plugins" folder</li> <li>Custom config files found in the "config" folder</li> <li>Language files found in the "system/language" folder </li> <li>Models found in the "models" folder</li> </ul> <p>To autoload resources, open the <var>application/config/autoload.php</var> file and add the item you want loaded to the <samp>autoload</samp> array. You'll find instructions in that file corresponding to each type of item.</p> <p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> Do not include the file extension (.php) when adding items to the autoload array.</p> </div> <!-- END CONTENT --> <div id="footer"> <p> Previous Topic: <a href="hooks.html">Hooks - Extending the Core</a> · <a href="#top">Top of Page</a> · <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> · Next Topic: <a href="scaffolding.html">Scaffolding</a> </p> <p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> · Copyright © 2007 · <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p> </div> </body> </html>