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[eluser]Perkin5[/eluser]
Sorry about this but I've come out of my dark place and I realise you still haven't answered my original question.

We don't have a situation of $this->load->view($content) as in your post. We have a situation of $this->load->view('template', $data) where $data contains a key value pair of 'content'=>'contact_us'.

When a view is loaded, CI turns the data array keys into variables that can then be used in the view. If I wanted to pass in the text 'page_title' I would do $data['title'] = 'page_title'. Then in the view I would echo $page_title and get back my text.

However in this case, CI interprets the words 'contact_us' as the contents of a file with that filename. I still don't get it.