trouble getting drop menu from model

[eluser]obiron2[/eluser]
There is nothing wrong with looping in the view to generate list data (e.g. dropdown options) however if you do this a lot, you may want to farm it off to a function that generates the html and returns it to the view as an html string, but this should be called from withing the view as it is a presentation decision, not a business logic one.

I use this process for rendering forms. I build all the form data in the controller and then call a generate_form($formdata) helper which produces the form with all the correct labels, ids and formatting DIVs that I require.

The big advantage is that if you want to change the rendering of repeated information, you simply have to change the function and not every view that uses it.

Obiron