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[eluser]Perkin5[/eluser]
I don't think you're getting my point. I understand perfectly how a view is loaded with the $data array. My question is about the population of the $data array. It's the line:

Code:

$data['content']='contact_us';

that puzzles me. What it's actually doing is loading the contents of the file contact_us.php into the array, so the key is 'content' and the value is 'whatever is in the file'.

How does CI know that I didn't want the value to be the text contact_us?

Does it first do a search for matching filenames and only then, if no matches, assume I mean text?