Question

i need to call a cakePHP element in an Ajax function; when the user clicks an item want to populate a DIV with the content of an element.
The problem is that i don’t know how to properly create that element because i call the url but cakephp renders all the webpage instead of only the element.
How can i call only the element through a controller action?

Thanks in advance
c.

Answer 1

Try calling an action, but within it, specify:

$this->layout = false;

That makes it so it does not use a layout file.

Then, within the view of that action, just echo the element – nothing else:

<?php
echo $this->element('myElement');
?>