Loading view outside view folder with CodeIgniter

Question

I have the need to load a view from outside the scope of:

$this->load->view();

which appears to work from base/application/vie

Answer 1

Following Dino's answer and correcting the ci_vars, working as view Codeigniter's function:

Codeigniter View Function

public function view($view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)
    {
        return $this->_ci_load(array('_ci_view' => $view, '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_prepare_view_vars($vars), '_ci_return' => $return));
    }

Dino's View Function will be now:

function ext_view($folder, $view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE) {
    $this->_ci_view_paths = array_merge($this->_ci_view_paths, array(APPPATH . $folder . '/' => TRUE));
    return $this->_ci_load(array(
                '_ci_view' => $view,
                '_ci_vars' => $this->_ci_prepare_view_vars($vars),
                '_ci_return' => $return
            ));
  }