OO usage in code igniter structure, Model, Controller

[eluser]m4rw3r[/eluser]
Umm, "new" is a keyword, use create or something instead.

Colin's example is a good complement to what I wrote above, and shows how the model can handle the creation/insertion of data objects.

btw, another reason to have the Cat class is to let it have methods that otherwise would have ended up in a helper (which would be suitable in many cases, depends on how it would be used).