pageTitle = 'Student Information System'; // create a new student dataset object that we can generate data from $studentsDataSet = new StudentsDataSet(); $view->studentsDataSet = $studentsDataSet->fetchAllStudents(); // send a results count to the view to show how many results were retrieved if (count($view->studentsDataSet) == 0) { $view->dbMessage = "No results"; } else { $view->dbMessage = count($view->studentsDataSet) . " result(s)"; } // include the view require_once('Views/index.phtml');