Best practice for including headers and footers

[eluser]mattalexx[/eluser]
In my application's views folder, I created a CakePHP-esque layouts folder. With the layouts folder I put "front", "admin" and "minimal" folders. Within each of these, I put a header.php file and a footer.php file.

Right now, I am putting this code into my controller to include headers and footers:

Code:

class Items extends Controller {

   function view($id) {

      // Get item
      // ...

      // Render
      $this->load->view("layouts/front/header", array('page_title' => $data['item']['title']));
      $this->load->view("items/view", $data);
      $this->load->view("layouts/front/footer");
   }

}

What I'm asking is, is there a better way to go about applying layouts than this?