Autload module not discovered by wire('ModuleName')

[Gazley]

Hi,

Repurposed this question as no takers in the module forum. I created a simple autoload module. It is definitely loaded at page instantiation time - I step through its init() call in the debugger. However, when it is referenced later, wire('ModuleName') returns null.

I can however reference it using $modules->get('ModuleName')

Any ideas why this might be the case?

Thanks.

[Soma]

Wire holds the api vars not a module. Like wire('pages') etc.

You get or load the module with

$mymodule = wire('modules')->get('ModuleName');

Or same

$mymodule = wire('modules')->ModuleName;

Or on templates

$mymodule = $modules->ModuleName;

What you have is correct, but get or load a module will load it explicit whether autoload or not. It will even install the module if it's not. Where not doing a call via API, an autoload module will get loaded still. So you dont need to or cant check to see if the module is loaded, at least I haven't been able to.

[adrian]

I know this is a post that Soma started on this topic, but I still think it is relevant to link to here since we got into talking about checking to see if a module is loaded or not:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/5477-check-if-a-module-is-loaded/

[Gazley]

Thanks Guys. I appreciate your clarification around the concept of "autoload"