So in CI_Controller there could be a function

protected function loadView ($viewName, $data = NULL) {
$this->load->helper(‘url’);
$this->load->view(‘inc_head’);
$this->load->view($viewName, $data);
}

and then in subclass you would use

$this->loadView(‘home’, NULL);

I have add some little things :
a global class for all page datas
and automatic passing datas to page in container :

// — library —

class PageDatas {
var $titlePage=”;
var $viewPage=”;
var $datas=array();
}

so in controller I just pass this object :

// — controller —

$pageDatas = new PageDatas();
$pageDatas->titlePage = ‘Tribe’;

// datas contents for page
$datas['contents']=$this->ContentModel->fetchAllContents();
$pageDatas->datas =$datas;

// view page
$pageDatas->viewPage = ‘content/index’;
$this->load->view(‘layer/container’, array(‘pageDatas’=>$pageDatas));

and in container I pass the pageDatas to header, footer…
and direct datas to the page :

// — container —

load->view(‘layer/header’, array(‘pageDatas’=>$pageDatas)); ?>

load->view($pageDatas->viewPage, $pageDatas->datas); ?>

hope it can help ^^

You could go one step furher though. What if you want to change the main view (the one you called ‘container’), you would have to change the name in every action of every controller where you loaded the view. Instead, what you should do is extend the Controller, and in its constructor, set the name of your main view (‘container’ in this case).

Then instead of extending Controller, you would extend MY_Controller (or whatever you called it), and when you load the view you would have someting like this:

$this->load->view($this->container, $data);

This way you can change the main view easily, and you can even go further and create a small templating engine based on that principle.