Best Practices for No Results from Database Query?

[eluser]kirkaracha[/eluser]
I'd prefer to only load the view if there's something to display and keep the presentational login in them to a minimum.

The way I have it set up now, I run the query from the controller and load the view if there are results or set a flash_data message and load a shared view to display the message if there aren't any results. That seems cleaner to me than putting the logic in the view files.