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In the first tutorial there is an error that occurs in the news controller and view. The tutorial shows the following code in the controller:

public function view($slug)
{
 $data['news_item'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);

 if (empty($data['news_item']))
 {
  show_404();
 }

 $data['title'] = $data['news_item']['title'];

 $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
 $this->load->view('news/view', $data);
 $this->load->view('templates/footer');
}

The view file code is:

echo '<h2>'.$news['title'].'</h2><p>';<br />
echo $news['text'];

That configuration produces an error. I was able to figure out that naming the $data array key as $data[‘news_item’] is what created the error. The table name in the database is “news”. When I changed the declaration to $data[‘news’] everything worked fine: Modified code in the controller:

public function view($slug)
 {
  $data['news'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);
  
  if (empty($data['news']))
 {
  show_404();
 }

 $data['title'] = $data['news']['title'];

 $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
 $this->load->view('news/view', $data);
 $this->load->view('templates/footer');

}

Updated code in view file:

echo '<h2>'.$news['title'].'</h2><p>';<br />
echo $news['text'];

Anyone else going through this tutorial experienced the same issue?

What user guide are you looking at? The one on EllisLab’s website is updated and correct, as should any user guide sent with 2.1.3 (and I think a couple previous versions as well).

From the codeigniter home page, I clicked on “Skim this Manual” and was taken to this page:

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/

At the top of this page it says CodeIgniter User Guide Version 2.1.3

The code I described can be found at this point in the tutorial:

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/tutorial/news_section.html

As I said, the user guide is correct. Your view code differs from what the user guide has.

And the database table name has nothing to do with your problem.