Sharing a view file for Add and Edit functions

[eluser]digitalbloke[/eluser]
Good evening.

I have a controller with two functions. One to add a news article and another to edit. Currently each function has a separate view file. Keeping DRY in mind I'm trying to replace the two view files with one. Where I'm getting stuck is with the set_value() function. As obviously for the add view the second parameter of set_vaule() has not been set and therefore causes php to show an "Undefined variable" error.

I could do something like this, but sometimes it gets a bit long and messy:

Code:

<?php echo set_value('title', ( isset($title) ) ? $title : ''); ?>

I've also come across this wiki article:
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Add_Edit_Views/

But I'm not too keen on using the @ symbol to suppress php errors and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a better way to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.