Trouble returning to page after form submission

[eluser]Tekamba[/eluser]
That is actually how I ended up resolving it, was kind of hoping there was a more elegant solution as this seems a bit barbaric, but could just be my still fairly limited PHP capabilities.

Here is the final solution:

I created a session variable to hold the message for the user (success/failure sending), I then created a new view file called confirm_send.php which simply contains:

<?php
$baseurl = base_url();
$baseurl .= "main/contact";
header ( 'Location: ' . $baseurl);
?>

And then changed my email controller file to $this->load->view('confirm_send');

I think my real problem may have been that I am using a template for my pages, so the email function was not calling the template properly and thus I wasn't getting a "full" page load, just the portion that should have been wrapped by the rest of my template calls. I also realize I hadn't mentioned the variable issue, but that is why I was attempting to make this work as I was hoping to just pass the variable across in the call, but I've now enabled sessions, which aren't really necessary for this site, but now I could monitor traffic to the site a bit on my own (outside of Google Analytics) should the client desire that in the future.

Thanks for all the tips, this was actually a pretty good challenge to help me get my head more into the CI framework, I'm really liking it, now just trying to tie in 960.gs and I think we'll be well on our way to some nicely capable websites with minimal fuss.

Greg