Opencart unable to display variable sent from controller in view - model-view-controller

I am having difficulty getting a variable to display on the product page in Opencart. I have added a SQL query to catalog/model/catalog/product.php file as below:
public function getLargeItems($product_id) {
$query = $this->db->query("SELECT * FROM " . DB_PREFIX . "oc_product_attribute WHERE product_id = '" . (int)$product_id . "' AND attribute_id=17 AND (text LIKE '10lt' OR text LIKE '30lt' OR text LIKE '50lt')");
return $query->row;
}
I then added the following to the catalog/controller/product/product.php file:
$large_items = $this->model_catalog_product->getLargeItems($product_id);
Finally I added the following to the /catalog/view/theme/mytheme/template/product/product.tpl page:
<?php if ($large_items) { ?>
<h1>Tree</h1>
<?php } ?>
And it returns Undefined variable: large_items in /catalog/view/theme/mytheme/template/product/product.tpl
I am at a bit of a loss now. Is anyone able to see by my code why its unable to pull the variable from the controller?
I've tried simplifying it by adding $large_items = "Hello" to the controller to see if I can echo this on the view page however it still cant see the variable.
The version of Opencart is 2.3.0.2
Thank you for your time.

I managed to resolve this by doing two things:
Removing oc_ from the query as the prefix is already defined, I was however only able to notice this after discovering that controller changes dont get picked up without clearing the cache in the admin panel > modifications > click the blue refresh button.
I was then able to see the broken query in the php logs.
The issue was my shoddy code, but I hope that the cache refresh information is useful to others if they get stuck.
Thanks

First you must remove oc_ from "oc_product_attribute WHERE product_id =... because prefix is already defined like " . DB_PREFIX . ".
Next you not properly defined $large_items in your controller. must be:
$data['large_items'] = $this->model_catalog_product->getLargeItems($product_id);
then you can get it on your .tpl like $large_items or in .twig {{ large_items }}
in twig your code should be:
{% if large_items %}
<h1>Tree</h1>
{% endif %}
Good luck

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Is there a back-end setting I can change or which PHP file do I need to overwrite? I only want the leading article's fulltext to show, intro articles should still display the readmore with only intro text.
Thanks in advance.
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If your template already has an override installed for com_content you will find it at this location:
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