Variable not being passed

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
When you are having problems sending $data to your views you can always do this which will make them global to all of your views

Code:

$data = array();

$data['test'] = 'this_value';

$this->load->vars($data);      // This will load $data global to all of your views.
$this->load->view('footer');