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[eluser]Samuurai[/eluser]
I think i'm having a bit of a dull moment, but I was looking at my code and wondering if I do really need a foreach when displaying the query results.

My model does the query and returns $query->result();

I then pass that to my view as $data->result

Then in my view I do a

foreach($result as $row)

Then I access the data using $row->firstname or whatever.

I want to pass the data to my views from the controller.. I've tried various differnt combinations of $result->row()->firstname, but I keep getting errors like "Call to member function on a non-object.

Do I really need the foreach?