Call 1 view in Codeigniter but share header/footer among all views?

Question

Loving Codeigniter, but I'm finding it annoying that I have to call a header, footer and the main view for each controller.

What is the best way to share a header/footer among all views and minimize replication of code. I don't want to use a template engine.

Answer 1

create a view, let's call it template.php with this code

<?php 
$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->view($view);
$this->load->view('footer');
?>

And on your controller do this

//the name of the view file you want to show, in my case I want to open the login_page.php view that's inside the folder user
$data['view'] = 'user/login_page';
//load the data variable so I can use it across the views
$this->load->vars($data);
//load the template.php view that will load header, user/login_page and footer
$this->load->view('template');