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I am using CI framework for the first time, and I need some help. I am migrating an existing website over to the CI framework and have followed CI's tutorials step-by-step without much trouble, but there are a few roadblocks I can't seem to get past... My database table has 2 columns - "country" and "city" - and I want to return a result in the view file that groups all rows by country, prints that country as a header, and then prints all corresponding cities as a list beneath the relevant country. Ie. <h1>England</h1> <ul> <li>Liverpool</li> <li>London</li> <li>Sheffield</li> </ul>Whereas before without CI framework, I could just write a query, return a result, redefine a variable and throw in a few if statements to achieve the desired result - the mvc structure of CI prevents me from doing so... I gather the key to this mystery lies in the controller and creating some sort of array to manage the data and use in the view file - can somebody please help me with an example? My existing controller is: <?php class Home extends CI_Controller { public function index() { $this->load->model('Default_model'); $data['query'] = $this->Default_model->getResults(); $this->load->view('page_view', $data); } }Existing view file is: <?php if (isset($query)):?> <?php foreach ($query as $row):?> <h1><?=$row->country?></h1> <ul> <li><?=$row->city?></li> </ul> <?php endforeach;?> <?php endif;?>And model: function getResults() { $query = $this->db->query('SELECT * FROM events GROUP BY country, city ORDER BY country, city'); return $query->result(); }Can anybody help me with an example, just to show me how this type of query is handled within the CI mvc structure? Thanks!