New to CI (be kind)

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[quote author="k2zs" date="1287963491"]
Now onto my other issue... How would I make a common navigational item that draws its items from a database?[/quote]

On a school site I did, the nav model goes to the table of the courses offered and grabs the title of each active course to display in the local navigation.

Code:

// Controller
// Asks the nav model to find what courses are active

function courses()
    {
        $data['title'] = "Courses";
        $data['nav_courses'] = $this->nav_model->get_nav_courses();        
        $this->load->view('course_view', $data);
    }

// Model
// DB query to get all active course titles to view in nav

    function get_nav_courses()
    {
        $this->db->order_by('course_name', 'asc');
        $this->db->where('active', 1);
        $query = $this->db->get('course_info');
        return $query->result();
    }