With CakePHP, the controller core automatically detects the file name of the view file which needs to be rendered from a controller action. You might want to reuse an existent view for an action or specify a different file name.
For example, if you have a controller named “Users” and you execute a controller action named “profile”, the view file “users/profile.ctp” will be automatically rendered. But you might want to output a view file named “edit.ctp” in the “users” folder. You can do this with the render method.
The code above will automatically render the “users/edit.ctp” view file after the controller action/method has been executed. But say for example that your “edit.ctp” file is not within the “users” folder, but rather inside a folder named “accounts”. Then you can change the viewPath and then execute the render method.
$this -> render(‘edit’);
So the code above will output the “accounts/edit.ctp” view file.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
Thanks for your support!
August 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
thanks for pointing out, I was looking for that info
September 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Thanks. This is exactly what I am looking for.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
This is exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks.
February 13th, 2009 at 11:16 am
hell yeah, thanx!
February 15th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
can i use redirect() to do it??
i have difficulty to pass a param to other controller’s view function.
when i do
$this->redirect(‘accounts/view/?id=2′)
the program will render to index function??
can u give me some hints??
thx!!!
February 16th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Don’t use “?id=2″
You can try something like…
$this -> redirect('accounts/view/2/');…then debug $this -> params and see what you get.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Goood! Short ‘n sweet!
July 21st, 2009 at 2:56 am
how can we set for another view folder.
i want to set a new view folder like ‘newview’.
from where i can set it?
and how i can use it????
November 10th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Can update http://book.cakephp.org ??
There is no information about viewPath.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:40 am
hey dude this is very useful information exactly what i was looking for, i was stuck when i need to create multiple forms for the same page…noe i can place different forms in separate views and select the views accordingly based on condition
thanks
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:56 pm
You also can use
$this->render(‘/folder/file_without_ctp_extension’);
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
It doestn load the layout this way!
March 16th, 2010 at 8:08 am
In stead of:
$this -> viewPath = ‘accounts’;
$this -> render(‘edit’);
you can:
$this -> render(‘../accounts/edit’);
July 19th, 2010 at 9:02 am
cakephp is awesome
October 28th, 2010 at 5:54 am
if u want to pass any variable to view
Then $this->set(compact(‘someVariable’));
(Set) statement should be given before calling render().
March 3rd, 2011 at 4:56 pm
I guess it would ignore default view, and view variables would work as normal?
April 11th, 2011 at 6:54 am
Little help please!!! Lets say you have a posts slider that rotates e.g. the last 4 posts in the page banner and you also want to loop over the latest posts in the content area of the page that limits lets say 10 to 20 latest posts. Is there a way that i could create another method and send it to the view to render the slider separately from the index action?
Thanks in advance…
May 18th, 2011 at 5:36 am
Good work !
August 31st, 2011 at 12:18 am
nice information