[eluser]techgnome[/eluser]
Oh, it's still fairly simple... I had to swap out the simple $this->db->get($tablename) for a couple (three) lines to select the fields, one of which included a GROUP_CONCAT (to put all the categories into one field on a single line for each article I'm pulling back) and of course, I had to add two inner joins... in the grand scheme of things, it isn't the most complicated part of the select method (currently I can pull items on any one of 8 fields... or any combination of those fields)... the model itself, is still CRUD simple... it's the logic inside the CRU parts that changed. Now I'm off to clean up the R and U methods with this new piece of data.
-tg
