Question

Okay, I have a function in my controller that works. However, I shouldn’t be calling the database in the controller (as we all know). I normally can easily migrate information from a model into a controller, but I’m having a hard time with this one. I won’t even share my model version…how would you write this to a model?

    $this -> db -> select('title, price, number_sites, number_entries, white_label'); 
    $query = $this -> db -> get('pricing', 3); // limit 3 rows

    $row1 = $query->row(0); // 0 grabs first row in table: Package 1        
    $data['row1'] = $row1;

    $row2 = $query->row(1); // 1 grabs second row in table: Package 2        
    $data['row2'] = $row2;

    $row3 = $query->row(2); // 2 grabs third row in table: Package 3        
    $data['row3'] = $row3;

Answer 1

Just copy and paste it into the model in a function you want to call:

function dbstuff(){
    $this -> db -> select('title, price, number_sites, number_entries, white_label'); 
    $query = $this -> db -> get('pricing', 3); // limit 3 rows

    $row1 = $query->row(0); // 0 grabs first row in table: Package 1        
    $data['row1'] = $row1;

    $row2 = $query->row(1); // 1 grabs second row in table: Package 2        
    $data['row2'] = $row2;

    $row3 = $query->row(2); // 2 grabs third row in table: Package 3        
    $data['row3'] = $row3;
    return $data;
}

Then in your controller:

$this->load->model('MyModel');
$data=$this->MyModel->dbstuff();
$this->load->view('view',$data);