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[eluser]mighty_falcon[/eluser]
[quote author="Dam1an" date="1244553275"]Can you post some code so I can get a better idea of what you mean?

The only things I could suggest off the top of my head is to make sure you decare the data variable in your class and then make it into an array

Code:

$data = array();

Not having that could cause some issues if you're running PHP4 I think (at least someone had that problem in the past and that was the cause)[/quote]

well my classes are exactly like the ones you posted in your example:

MY_Controller

Code:

class MY_Controller extends Controller {
    protected $data;
    protected $title;
    protected $view;
    
    
    
    /**
     * MY_Controller::__construct()
     *
     * Used to simply set-up the variables to be used when rendering the template.
     */
    public function __construct() {
        parent::Controller();
        // Initialise the default views
        //$this->views['menu'] = 'template/menu';
        //$this->views['sidebar'] = 'template/sidebar';
        //$this->views['main'] = 'template/main';
        //$this->views['footer'] = 'template/footer';
        
        // theme files go under controller/method
        $uri = $this->router->class.'/'.$this->router->fetch_method();
          $this->view = $uri;
          
          //sets the default title, each method should override this
          $this->title = '....title....';
  
    }
    
    /**
     * MY_Controller::render()
     *
     * @return: The default view for the main theme.
     *             Each subsequent view is then loaded via creating a folder and .php file in the view folder such as
     *
     *             CONTROLLER/METHOD.php
     */
    function render() {
        // We need the views and the data in the master template
        $this->load->view('main', array('data'=>$this->data, 'view'=>$this->view, 'title' => $this->title));
    }

the conroller file:

Code:

//helpers
        $this->load->helper('form');
        $this->load->helper('url');
        
        $popular_query = $this->db->query("SELECT term, COUNT(sid) AS total FROM searches GROUP BY term ORDER BY total DESC");
    

        $popular = $popular_query->result_array();
        
        $this->data = $popular;
        $this->title = 'test';

I cannot seem to be able to access any data i pass on to $this->data from the controller class...am i doing something wrong when extending MY_controller?