Tutorial error...?? (RESOLVED)

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I hit this same issue this evening going through the tutorial. For me the issue was located here:

Code:

public function view($slug)
  {
   $data['news'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);
   if (empty($data['news_item']))
   {
    show_404();
   }

I was populating $data['news'] but the rest of the function is looking at $data['news_item']. Changing those references to $data['news'] resolved the issue.

The tutorial uses $data['news_item'] for that function so it's unclear to me if some framework magic is supposed to be happening and isn't or it's a misprint in the tutorial.