ComboBox like

[eluser]ojcarga[/eluser]
Trying to understand, maybe this can help:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...elper.html
Look for the subtitle named form_dropdown() and do exactly what it says and let us know what happen.

The thing about the model, let me know if I understood, you want to read the values in a voew from a model?

Guess you need to read about MVC dude,
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...w/mvc.html

You use a controller to comunicate a view with a model, it is something like monkey-in-the-middle but man, read the guide it is very useful

Cheers!