best practice of exposing data to a view

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
Rather than return TRUE/FALSE from your models - why not return FALSE or any data?

That's the route I go - then, when passing data to the view (in the second parameter method your described) I determine whether everything is as it should be or if we have an issue.

Code:

<?
if ($myvar !== FALSE) {
  // do normal stuff
} else {
  // omg, die
} ?>