Question

I have a controller say class_controller.php. But I don’t want to create its view. So what should be written in the controller?

I like if you don’t want any model to be related we use var $uses = null; likewise what is the code for not relating to its view?

Answer 1

It is easy to disable both the layout and view in CakePHP by putting the following line in your controller action:

$this->autoRender = false;

If you want to disable just the layout, use the following line in your controller action:

$this->layout = false;

And if you only want to disable the view for this action, use the following line in your controller:

$this->render(false);

Note: This will be action specific and not controller as you have asked for.

You can do the trick using beforeFilter() function which will call before every action in your controller & disable layout for you.

public function beforeFilter() {
    parent::beforeFilter();
    $this->autoRender = false;
}