I've been messing with this for a few hours now. It's got to be something dumb, but I'm just not seeing it. Why does my db->get() not return any rows? This is my first attempt at an MVC framework. I've installed apache2, mysql, php5, and codeigniter in Ubuntu. For some reason, I just can't seem to get the model to access the data in the database.
# cat config/database.php 
<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
$active_group = 'default';
$active_record = TRUE;
$db['default']['hostname'] = '127.0.0.1';
$db['default']['username'] = 'webuser';
$db['default']['password'] = 'webuser';
$db['default']['database'] = 'product';
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['default']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;
# cat models/productmodel.php 
<?php
    class Productmodel extends CI_Model {
            public function __construct() {
                    parent::__construct();
                    $this->load->database();
            }
            public function ListData() {
                    $query = $this->db->get("Fruit");
                    if ($query->num_rows() > 0) {
                            foreach ( $query->result() as $row ) {
                                    echo "VALUE: <BR>\n";
                            }
                    } else {
                            $string = $this->db->last_query();
                            echo "$string <BR>\n";
                    }
                    return $query->result();
            }
    }
?>
# cat controllers/productcontroller.php 
<?php
    class Productcontroller extends CI_Controller {
            public function index() {
                    $this->load->model('productmodel');
                    $data['query'] = $this->productmodel->ListData();
                    $data['title'] = 'MVC Test';
                    $data['heading'] = 'Data From product.Fruit';
                    $this->load->view('content', $data);
            }
    }
?>
# cat views/content.php 
<html>
  <head>
    <title><?php echo $title;?></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1><?php echo $heading;?></h1>
    <?php foreach ($query AS $value) {echo "Value: $value <BR>\n"; } ?>
  </body>
</html>
# echo "SELECT * FROM product.Fruit" | mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u webuser --password=webuser
name      color   size
Apple      Red     1
Orange     Orange  1
Watermelon Green   3
Grape      Green   0
Cherry     Red     0
HoneyDew   Green   2
 
     
     
     
    