CakePHP: How do you avoid the use of a template when rendering JSON?

Question

I'm presently working with a new project in CakePHP, and when I add a json request to a controller, CakePHP looks for a matching view template in the views folder. This behavior would be fine for regular pages, but every single one of my json view templates is completely empty . I use a "json" layout that looks like this:

<?php
Configure::write('debug', 0);
echo json_encode($json_output);
?>

I realize a partial solution might be to simply "touch" a file for every json view that I create, but that involves SSHing into the server and doing a lot of overhead stuff. Is there a way to simply tell CakePHP to use just the layout for a given view?

Answer 1

You can disable a view in cake.

http://www.sethcardoza.com/posts/view/31/title/disabling-layouts-and-views-in-cakephp