disable zend layout by javascript call

Question

i am fetching a page using get ajax call.

$.get('/notification/viewmessage',{user:username},function(data){
                //my code here
            });

i wan't to disable the layout of the page on some $.get calls only. the default layout disable function in zend is $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout(); but i don't want to do this in all page requests. can i do this by adding some code in the js request itself? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is what the AjaxContext action helper does out of the box.

Simply add the config calls to your controller's init() method, create a .ajax.phtml view and render it in your normal view script. For example

public function init()
{
    $this->_helper->ajaxContext->addActionContext('viewmessage', 'html')
                               ->initContext('html');
                               // this avoids having to pass a format param
}

In notification/viewmessage.phtml

<?php echo $this->render('notification/viewmessage.ajax.phtml') ?>

and place your normal view contents in notification/viewmessage.ajax.phtml

Answer 2

You'd probably want to add a flag to your viewmessage script.

$.get('/notification/viewmessage?layout=false',{user:username},function(data){
    //my code here
});

Then in the viewmessage script you'd have something like this at the top of the script.

if($this->getRequest()->getParam('layout') == 'false')
{
    $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
}