__destruct and outputting views

[eluser]drewbee[/eluser]
I think your problem is the fact that the views output is ran before __destruct() happens.
You will have to force Code Igniter to not use its own output, and rather force it out on your own. I know how to output code igniters current setup, however telling it not to output its own data is a mess regardless.

Code:

function __destruct()
{
    $this->load->view('common/footer');
    echo $this->output->get_output();
    die();
}

Why not load the footer view within the links/hot.

This way you are not calling this in your controller, but the view ie

links/hot.php (view)

Code:

echo $this->load->view('header', TRUE);
echo 'this is my hot links view';
echo $this->load->view('footer', TRUE);

I am not sure if that will work or not, but that would be my best method for doing this.

Personally, I just create one global_view file.