I just want to know what would be better between below two scenerio.
I have model A and B in CodeIgniter and two different controllers for interacting with those models, That is A_controller and B_controller, Now my question is i have so many of methods defined in both model A and B. Now i want to use a method of model A in A_controller.
It would be better to load whole model A into B_controller to just use a single method, or should i make a separate method in model B for use in B_controller.
Which option will be better with respect to Performance.
Any help will be appreciated!
Divide and conquer
create a small model with the shared functions between models A and B, this way you won't have any duplicated code anywhere. And then you load this new model and the model A for example.
Controller A
$this->load->model('A_model');
$this->load->model('Shared_model');
Controller B
$this->load->model('B_model');
$this->load->model('Shared_model');
Hope that helps
Create one single model file and write functions, so you need to load only one model in controller. All functions can access from a single model.
Nice answer provided by David above. you can also check some good answer for the same
Codeigniter : calling a method of one controller from other
stackoverflow.com/questions/6500022/codeigniter-calling-a-method-of-one-controller-from-other