Loading views within a view file

[eluser]wrs[/eluser]
Hi,

I'm using multiple view files for various elements of the rendered page, such as the header, footer, and other widgets.

CodeIgniter docs suggest I should be loading these views entirely from the controller like so:

Code:

<?php

class User extends Controller {

    public function register(){
        $this->load->view('header');
        $this->load->view('user/register');
        $this->load->view('footer');
    }

};

?>

I have just recently begun loading the 'header' and 'footer' views from within the 'user/register' view itself using:

Code:

<?php $this->load->view('header');?>
<p>Yak yak yak</p>
&lt;?php $this->load->view('footer');?&gt;

This way I only have to load the 'user/register' view from the controller, but is it good practice? Are all the benifits of using views ( as opposed to just echoing data ) still intact?