Passing an array from Codeigniter to Smarty - codeigniter

Question

I'm using Codeigniter with Smarty as my template engine. I have a main template
(master.tpl) that I am inheriting in my page templates. In one of my pages I'm trying to access data that was pulled from the database, but I have not been successful yet.
My model looks like this:
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
Class company extends CI_Model
{
public function __construct()
{
// Call the constructor
parent::__construct();
// Load database access
$this->load->database();
}
public function get_companies()
{
// Query the companies table
$query = $this->db->get('companies');
return $query->result();
}
}
My controller looks like this:
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Companies extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
// Load the companies model
$this->load->model('company');
$companies = $this->company->get_companies();
$data['complist'] = $companies;
//load the department_view
$this->load->view('companies',$data);
}
}
and this is the main part of my page view:
...
<tbody>
{foreach from=$companies item=company}
<li>{$data.name}</li>
{/foreach}
</tbody>
...
The code block in my master.tpl that is inherited in the page view looks like this:
...
{block name=content}{/block}
...
I'm simply trying to display a list of companies retrieved from my database but I can't figure out how to access the array that holds the data. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
Here are a the error messages I get:
Message: Undefined index: companies
Message: Trying to get property of non-object

Answer 1

Try making companies like so $data['companies'] = $this->company->get_companies();
And autoload your database library in config/autoload.php much better.
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Companies extends CI_Controller {
public function index() {
$this->load->model('company');
$data['companies'] = $this->company->get_companies();
$this->load->view('companies',$data);
}
}
Model
Make Model Class change company to Company
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Company extends CI_Model {
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
public function get_companies() {
$query = $this->db->get('companies');
if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
return $query->result();
// or
// return $query->result_array();
} else {
return false;
}
}
On view I know you use smarty but php way Example normal php on view with out smarty just example.
<?php foreach ($companies as $company) {?>
<?php echo $company['name'];?>
<?php }?>
Smarty
<tbody>
{foreach from = $companies item = $company}
<tr>
<td>{$company.name}</td>
</tr>
{/foreach}
</tbody>

Answer 2

As Tpojka mentioned, I was trying to access the wrong variable so I had to change that, but the syntax in the foreach loop was $companies->name. This is what the loop in the template now looks like:
{foreach from=$companies item=company}
<tr>
<td>{$company->name}</td>
<td>{$company->address}</td>
<td>{$company->city}</td>
<td>{$company->phone}<td>
<td>{$company->email_address}</td>
<td class="center">
<a class="btn btn-success" href="#">
<i class="fa fa-search-plus "></i>
</a>
<a class="btn btn-info" href="#">
<i class="fa fa-edit "></i>
</a>
<a class="btn btn-danger" href="#">
<i class="fa fa-trash-o "></i>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
{foreachelse}
No records found.
{/foreach}