Best Practice for view templates?

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How do I load common page elements with minimal code?

Currently, to keep my content views clean I only put the contents of my page in views, then have a single head and foot.

This is what my controller would call to pull up the add profile page:

Code:

$this->load->view('head', $data);
$this->load->view('volunteers/add_profile.php');
$this->load->view('foot');

I'm just curious if there is a shortcut anywhere for this, or a better way of doing this.

What I don't want is to make views that actually have page layout information in them other than what is directly required for that particular view.

(meaning I don't want header information in the actual add_profile view, because I might want to use that view somewhere else, or I might want to change the header on all of my pages)

I've thought of doing something like this:

Code:

$data['page']='volunteers/add_profile.php';
$this->load->view('template', $data);

Then have the content portion pull in the $page.

Thoughts?