Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

[eluser]davidbehler[/eluser]

If var is not an array or an object with implemented Countable interface, 1 will be returned. There is one exception, if var is NULL, 0 will be returned.

from http://php.net/manual/en/function.count.php

That being said, your error is quite easy to fix.
Your model returns either an array or FALSE. count() will return the number of elements in your array or 1 if the returned values from your model is FALSE.

Instead of

Code:

if($total > 0){
}

I would use

Code:

if(is_array($query) {
}

or

Code:

if($total > 0 AND $query !== FALSE){
}

Hope that helps.