trouble getting drop menu from model

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
[quote author="trevor2" date="1234745912"]Guess I don't understand how to properly echo $data in the view. Since there should be no looping in the view,...[/quote]
Not necessarily, if you don't try to follow the MVC approach too strict, you can of course have loops in your views.
Have a look at the user guide: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-gui...views.html

[quote author="trevor2" date="1234745912"]... the foreach loop generating the <option> tags would have to be in the controller, but it's not working.[/quote]
"It's not working" isn't a good explanation of your problem... be more precise!