Passing Data to View

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I have a controller that sends an email, then loads a view:

$data['title'] = 'Contact Us';

Code:

$email_data = array('message' => 'This is the message';
$email_message = $this->load->view('email_template', $email_data, TRUE);

// send email...
// if there was a problem store error message in $data['message']

$this->load->view('contact', $data);

And in my view (contact.php):

Code:

<?php if(!empty($message)) : ?>
<?= $message ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Even if there's no problem sending the email, the

Code:

$message

variable is not empty -- it contains the email message that's passed to the email template.

So, even though the

Code:

$data

array that we're explicitly passing to the view we want to load doesn't contain an index/value for

Code:

'message'

, since there's a different array that does, and is passed to a different view, that variable is then available in a view to which we're not explicitly passing that array.

I realize that a really simple work around is to initialize any indexes of our "final" $data array that may possibly exist in any other $not_data arrays passed to views that may be loaded before loading our "final" view. But should I have to do this? Is this the intended behavior?

Thanks!