Best Practices for No Results from Database Query?

[eluser]kirkaracha[/eluser]
Wouldn't I still have to handle no results in the controller, then?

Code:

if($entries)
{
   // ...load your view...
} else {
// show a message saying there weren't any results
}

That's basically what I'm doing now, except I'm checking $result->num_rows() in the controller.