Clean way to work with views

[eluser]jfong[/eluser]
Hi,

Great framework and I'm really learning fast - just trying to learn how to do this properly. I have a function to get everything from the db in the model, which passes to controller as a $data array. In the controller, I am assigning it as follows:

$data['everything'] = $this->Everything_model->everything();

and passing $data to the view. In the view, I do:

foreach ($everything as $row) {
echo $row['recordname'];
}

I can get everything to show properly, however I feel like I can somehow do all the processing in the controller, then use something like a variable $recordname in the view. Is this possible by assigning a variable in the controller like $recordname = $data['everything']? Or, do I have to keep the data as an array then expand it in the view?

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!