Question

I would like to pull in different Views in my default layout.

‘default.ctp’ is my main layout template and this is currently only pulling in content from ‘view/posts/index.ctp’, however, I’d also like to include my add news form (‘view/posts/add.ctp’) in this template.

Is this easy to achieve?

I looked at the manual about ‘elements’ but it didn’t seem to help.

Thank you for any pointers.

Answer 1

If you want to render on a page for one action result of another action, Object::requestAction() can halp you.

In place in view (view/posts/index.ctp), where you want to display other view (view/posts/add.ctp), put this cpode:

echo $this->requestAction('/posts/add', array('return'));

More about requestAction

In case if you want only render other templete – View::render() for you.
This method render a templete only without execution action and don’t work correct in same situations (eg. where used paginator).

Code:

echo $this->render('/Posts/add', false);

‘/Posts/add’ – for CakePHP 2, for 1.3 – ‘/posts/add’