CI Objects and arrays - aaghh!

[eluser]Loquela[/eluser]
I think I'm missing the wood for the trees here.

I'm struggling with retrieving values for arrays and objects. Please help.

In my controller I have:

Code:

$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());

and I am able to list the upload_data using a loop:

Code:

foreach($upload_data as $item => $value):, etc, etc

This works fine.

But what I can't seem to do is capture $orig_name from the $upload_data variable for my model. I'm doing this:

controller:

Code:

$this->files_model->insert_file($data);

model:

Code:

function insert_file($data)
     {
      
           $this->db->insert('als_files', array('file_filename' => $upload_data['orig_name']));
     }

I know this is wrong and opf course i get "Undefined variable: upload_data"

Could anyone help?

Many thanks in advance,

L.