Issue with include

You can load another view inside a view.

View: news/add.php

PHP Code:

<?php $this->load->view('template/header');?>
...
...
<?php $this->load->view('template/footer');?>

This way, though, you get a lot of repeating code. Because every view must embed a header and footer. An alternative way is make a function in MY_Controller (that extends the CI_Controller):

PHP Code:

public function _render_page($view, $data) {
$this->load->view('template/header');
$this->load->view($view,$data);
$this->load->view('template/footer');
} 


Now, from your controller, you can do this:

PHP Code:

$this->_render_page('news/add', $data);  //data is an array with variables you want to use in the view