How to insert image from outside View folder with Codeigniter ?

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I have image name is user_green in template folder. The template folder not in View folder. It's outside view folder. I try to insert image but It can't show this image. I don't know, how to insert image from outside View folder.

This is my code. It can't show user_green.png in View.

Code:

<img src="template/user_green.png" width="16" height="16" alt="user_green"/>
<img src="./template/user_green.png" width="16" height="16" alt="user_green"/>
<img src="&lt;?php echo site_url() . '/template/user_green.png'; ?&gt;" width="16" height="16" alt="user_green"/>
<img src="&lt;?php echo site_url() . 'template/user_green.png'; ?&gt;" width="16" height="16" alt="user_green"/>
<img src="&lt;?php echo site_url() . './template/user_green.png'; ?&gt;" width="16" height="16" alt="user_green"/>