The ChangeLog for CI v1.5.1 (actually listed as v1.5.0.2 in the log) states that the case of a loaded class is now respected:

Added support for naming custom library files in lower or uppercase.

However, line 766 of Loader.php is still forcing to lowercase:

Removing that line breaks CI due to case-swapping during the loading of the library.

I really want the case to be respected, so when I do this:

this gets assigned:

rather than this:

This is an issue because of PHP’s inconsistent case sensitivity between variables and function/class names. I guess Code Igniter was attempting to address this issue by defining a certain convention for loading libraries.

This changelog entry either needs to be removed or the issue addressed to avoid confusing newcomers to the framework.

UPDATE

After sleeping on this, I realized it’s talking about library files, not the name of the variable assigned.

Libraries are still assigned in lowercase.

yeah, if you read the line you quoted from changelog, it means that now you can give the library name as either uppercase or lowercase its not an issue & the class name can be any case, it’ll be accepted, its just that it doesn’t say that it’ll keep the class name as it is when creating its object! thats still a problem, which I hope will be taken care of in next release!

I’m glad there’s others requesting that feature.

coolfactor - 07 December 2006 11:21 AM

I’m glad there’s others requesting that feature.

well, I don’t consider that as a feature but an oversight on Rick’s point(unless he has some good reasons) which should be fixed.