Loading views within a view file

[eluser]jdavidson[/eluser]
[quote author="adamp1" date="1271160570"][quote author="jdavidson" date="1271127323"]Not sure if this is helpful but another possibility is to use a simple include within the view such as:

Code:

<?php include('system/application/views/header.php'); ?>
[..body code here...]
<?php include('system/application/views/footer.php'); ?>

As long as you pass all variables needed to the original view, there is no need to "load" additional views since as far as codeigniter is concerned you have only loaded a single view.[/quote]

I wouldn't use this method in an MVC framework since there is no need with $this->load->view. Another thing is the paths have to be absolute/relative which mean if you did change the folder structure you have to go update all include statements.[/quote]

You have a good point with the folder structure argument. That definitely makes it much more beneficial to load all views from the Controller. Thanks for the input.