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  370. <h1>Using CodeIgniter Drivers<a class="headerlink" href="#using-codeigniter-drivers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
  371. <p>Drivers are a special type of Library that has a parent class and any
  372. number of potential child classes. Child classes have access to the
  373. parent class, but not their siblings. Drivers provide an elegant syntax
  374. in your <a class="reference internal" href="controllers.html"><span class="doc">controllers</span></a> for libraries that benefit
  375. from or require being broken down into discrete classes.</p>
  376. <p>Drivers are found in the <em>system/libraries/</em> directory, in their own
  377. sub-directory which is identically named to the parent library class.
  378. Also inside that directory is a subdirectory named drivers, which
  379. contains all of the possible child class files.</p>
  380. <p>To use a driver you will initialize it within a controller using the
  381. following initialization method:</p>
  382. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;class_name&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
  383. </pre></div>
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  385. <p>Where class name is the name of the driver class you want to invoke. For
  386. example, to load a driver named “Some_parent” you would do this:</p>
  387. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">driver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;some_parent&#39;</span><span class="p">);</span>
  388. </pre></div>
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  390. <p>Methods of that class can then be invoked with:</p>
  391. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">some_parent</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">some_method</span><span class="p">();</span>
  392. </pre></div>
  393. </div>
  394. <p>The child classes, the drivers themselves, can then be called directly
  395. through the parent class, without initializing them:</p>
  396. <div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">some_parent</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">child_one</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">some_method</span><span class="p">();</span>
  397. <span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">some_parent</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">child_two</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="na">another_method</span><span class="p">();</span>
  398. </pre></div>
  399. </div>
  400. <div class="section" id="creating-your-own-drivers">
  401. <h2>Creating Your Own Drivers<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-your-own-drivers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
  402. <p>Please read the section of the user guide that discusses how to <a class="reference internal" href="creating_drivers.html"><span class="doc">create
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