[eluser]J101[/eluser]
To start with, this isn't my code. I didn't write any of this and I'm trying to understand it myself.
Yes, I believe they all are relationships (and yes, there are a lot of $has_many in there also) because when I print_r $v, that is mostly what I am seeing are relationships and queries. What I don't understand is on the view side, they have
and it is rendering the correct results but yet when I do the print_r on the controller side, I can't find any of the key/value pairs.
I am going to pass this info along to the other developer on this project and make him aware of it. He has more CI experience than I do and has coded most of what I am trying to understand.
I'll try what you suggested and be back to let you know what the output is.