Question about the MVC pattern

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
@loathsome, You seem to have reached a point where Modular Extensions - HMVC would provide a solution for you.

While Randy uses Ajax calls to render his partial by calling a controller from his view remotely, ME allows you to create a module that you can call to build partial views such as your status box at server level.

Code:

<?php echo modules::run('status', $data, 'render'); ?>

@randy, I forgive you. But I don't recommend HTML output from models, you could just as easily load and return a view.