Single value return "Array to string conversion?"

[eluser]jmadsen[/eluser]
There are different design patterns, and down the road you might decide you like one of them better. However, one thing I think they all have in common is - we don't load the data directly into the view

In any case, Codeigniter is built around using a controller to strap these together, and when you load models into a view, yo invariably need to add a lot of "presenter" type logic there as well, making a real mess of your code & making it very difficult for others to trace your code & understand it.

The rule of thumb I generally go by is:

If you need to manipulate the data at all (I would include calling it from the data source in this), do it in your controller first & just display

If you are only looking to format data (format your date, capitalize words, etc), you can make a helper function & feel free to call that directly in the view.

That's just my way of doing it, but it works pretty well for me.