Questions regarding <dl> in CI.

[eluser]überfuzz[/eluser]
[quote author="Aken" date="1252341503"]That is an insane amount of variables to pass through a single model function. It's perfectly acceptable (and recommended) to use a few methods with specific functionality, instead of something like that where you are still entering a ton of info into each call.

My recommendation? Make two model functions. One to pull the database information as it normally would (your first example). A second function - the one you'd actually use in this situation - would pull the DB info using the first function, and then format it specifically for the definition list.[/quote]

So your suggestion is as follows:
1. A specific model for each call? (In my case I have 5 different calls that have to be done in a similar way but to different sql-table. Each call fetches something like 2 or 10 rows.)
2. One function that alter the array, call this method from each query-method.
3. Pass the return the now altered array from each query-function.

Whats the downside in having a bunch of variables pass to a function in contrast to having a bunch of functions?