News tutorial help needed

[eluser]Atown[/eluser]
[quote author="Aken" date="1350013972"]You need to make sure to call the parent construct in your models.

Code:

class News_model extends CI_Model {

public function __construct()
{
  parent::__construct();
  $this->load->database();
}

// The rest of your model code...
}

Your controller also looks malformed (missing curly braces to close methods). You are also defining the view() method more than once.

Also, if you have an .htaccess file to remove index.php, I suggest you take it out for the time being, as it is often the cause of 500 server errors. Otherwise it could be the PHP errors causing problems.[/quote]

Awesome so it was a missing curly bracket and the fact that I called two views, even though the view was ($slug)... and I followed the tutorial.... how come the tutorial had me call that view in addition to the other?

I then got a invalid db error
"You have specified an invalid database connection group."

which I troubleshooted into the config/database.php and changing the

$active_group = 'default';

to default (it was set to "test" for whatever reason. I think it was from another issue on stackoverflow I was trying to use to help figure out my other issues.)

Thank you for your help everyone, I really appreciate getting back on track with this