Single value return "Array to string conversion?"

[eluser]Sky Warden[/eluser]
[quote author="jmadsen" date="1363948530"]Even though your result() object only has one row, it is still a collection of rows. You might want to look at result_array() just to make it easier to visualize with var_dump()

The result_array() will be an array of arrays, each of those sub arrays being a row(). The function won't change up the return object simply because the requested data changes to something simpler - you have to do that yourself.

However, there are a couple things that can help:

Code:

->row()/->row_array() will grab the first row - so if you know you only have one, just use that

    ->row()->username / ->row_array()['username'] - can get a value directly

Just use them with caution - easy to make logic bugs until you're comfortable[/quote]

Whoa! Thank you! It's working now. I totally forgot that row() will grab the first row. :lol:

I know it's not relevant to the topic, but do you think it's a good idea to load models from view? Some people say it's fine, while some other don't. In some cases, I need to load it from view instead of loading it in controller then give the data to the view. Is there any disadvantage of this method?