Render views to the layout without refreshing the page cakephp?

Question

I want load views from controllers to the default layout without refreshing the default layout content in my cakephp site.

 <div id="content" class="wrapper">
              <?=$content_for_layout;?>
          </div>

i am rendering views in to there is headers and footers in the content of the layout. i don't want to refresh that content while rendering views to the layout from controllers.

Answer 1

Use Ajax to update content of views.

For example you have id="content" in which you have view data, so update this div accoringly

For jQuery post request: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.post/

For jQuery get request: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.get/

Update you div as $( ".content" ).html( data ); // data is your html code

In your controller action

check request type and render their respective view and exit.