Hi, I bet this is easy but been trying for a while and can't seem to get it to work. Basically I am setting up pagination and in the model below I want to pass $total_rows to my controller so I can add it to the config like so '$config['total_rows'] = $total_rows;'.

function get_timeline_filter($per_page, $offset, $source) 
    {
        $this->db->where('source', $source);
        $this->db->order_by("date", "desc");
        $q = $this->db->get('timeline', $per_page, $offset);
        $total_rows = $this->db->count_all_results();

        if($q->num_rows() >0) 
        {
            foreach ($q->result() as $row) 
            {
                $data[] = $row;                 
            }
            return $data;
        }

    }

I understand how to pass things form the Controller to the model using $this->example_model->example($something); but not sure how to get a variable from the model?