Question

I’m doing some experimenting with AJAX in CakePHP and it seems to work except that the view that gets returned includes the default template. How can I get rid of that (or even just specify a different empty template for a view)?

Answer 1

function ajaxFunction() {
    //do stuff
    $this->layout= 'ajax';
}

Ajax is an included blank layout to prevent extra markup being added, exactly what you want.

http://book.cakephp.org/view/96/Layouts