Variable Accessible In View, But Not Within View's Function?

[eluser]Walter Coots[/eluser]
Thanks Sam. I thought that might have been the case. I'm sort-of new to the MVC design pattern, and sometimes the distinction between view and controller confuses me. Although the function is for generating a portion of the view, I suppose this would be along the lines of having a function in a model with the intention of cleaning up data for presentation. (Which makes more sense being done in the controller.)