extracting query information from the controller

[eluser]gon[/eluser]
The controller doesn't know about $page_query, because you have assigned the data to $data['page_query']
Try:

Code:

function page() {
    $page_id = $this->uri->segment(3);
    $this->load->model('Page_model');
    $page_query = $this->Page_model->get_page($page_id);    
    // do whatever you need with $page_query
    $data['page_query'] = $page_query;  // and finally pass it to the view
    $this->load->view('main/generic', $data);
}

Perhaps you were confused by the "magic" that assigns the properties of the $data array to vars. This happens only in the view.