Libraries

What Are They?

Libraries in Dingo give your applications advanced functionality. An example would be database access.

How To Use A Library

Libraries can be loaded from controllers, views, helpers, or even other libraries. It only takes one line of code to load a library.

load::library('db');

The above code would load the Databasing library that is included with Dingo.

Auto Loading Libraries

If you are going to use a particular library a lot, then you should consider auto loading it by adding it to the autoload_libraries array in application/config/development/config.php. For example, you could auto load the Databasing library by editing config.php like so:

/* Auto Load Libraries */
config::set('autoload_libraries',array('db'));

It is also possible to load libraries on a controller-by-controller basis by adding the $autoload_libraries array to the controller class.

class main_controller
{
    public $autoload_libraries = array('db');

    // ...
}