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

Here is a much more straightforward answer that I found on the CodeIgniter forum at https://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-58412.html

This is my ever-so-slight deviation from the solution presented by docmattman:

class MY_Loader extends CI_Loader{
  public function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
  }

  public function load_ext_view($view, $vars = array(), $return = FALSE)
  {
    $view_file = '/full/path/to/'.$view.'.php';

    if(file_exists($view_file)){
       $view_to_load = array('_ci_path'   => $view_file,
                             '_ci_view'   => $view,
                             '_ci_vars'   => $this->_ci_object_to_array($vars),
                             '_ci_return' => $return
                             );

       return $this->_ci_load($view_to_load);
    }

       return $this->view($view, $vars, $return);
    }
}