thanks for replies guys. :) i came to a conclusion that i can't use render() function for this purpose. reason is there are three callbacks i could place this call in: - AppController::beforeFilter() - won't work because it's called before action - AppController::beforeRender() - won't work because it'll go into infinite loop (render() calls beforeRender()) - AppController::afterFilter() - won't work because rendering is already done
only thing i see, that would solve this, is that some variable which would specify name of view file is added to controller (like $layout), and used in render() action to determine view file. if some other solution doesn't come up, i'll post feature request. maybe i get lucky. :) cheers On Nov 19, 8:25 am, David Roda <davidcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last response I promise! > > I read the whole post this time... If you want to change the view that is > rendered for an action you can manually call $this->render . Also the > target action can be tested for with $this->action if you need to test for > specific cases. > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:22 AM, David Roda <davidcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm sorry its late... I didn't even read your post... please ignore my > > reply! =( > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:21 AM, David Roda <davidcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I think you can use the RequestHandler component for this. > >>http://book.cakephp.org/view/174/Request-Handling > > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Dr. Loboto <drlob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> There is a hack to render view from other folder: $this->render > >>> ('..'.DS.'shared'.DS.'json'); > > >>> On Nov 18, 6:13 pm, ddaffy <dda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > hi! > > >>> > i'm using Router::parseExtensions('json') to be able to request data > >>> > delivered in json format, and i've been wondering if there's a way to > >>> > change view file that will be used to render data? > > >>> > if action test from Examples controller ( /examples/test ) is > >>> > requested, default view (app/views/examples/test.ctp) is rendered with > >>> > default layout (app/views/layouts/default.ctp). > > >>> > if /examples/test.json is requested app/views/examples/json/test.ctp > >>> > is rendered with app/views/layouts/json/default.ctp layout. > > >>> > because i use unified way for passing variables to view, i don't need > >>> > every action to have different view for json extension (app/views/ > >>> > examples/json/test1.ctp, app/views/examples/json/test2.ctp...), and i > >>> > would like to use e.g. app/views/shared/json.ctp. i know how to > >>> > achieve this for single action, but i need a way to do this globally > >>> > (in AppController). > > >>> > what i tried: > > >>> > funciton beforeRender() { > >>> > if ($this->RequestHandler->ext == 'json') { > >>> > $this->viewPath = 'shared'; > >>> > } > > >>> > } > > >>> > results in rendering app/views/shared/<action_name>.ctp > > >>> > funciton beforeRender() { > >>> > if ($this->RequestHandler->ext == 'json') { > >>> > $this->render('/shared/json'); > >>> > // or: $this->render('shared/json'); > >>> > // or: $this->render(null, null, '/shared/json'); > >>> > // or variations.. > >>> > } > > >>> > } > > >>> > result is empty. > > >>> > also i saw solution with creating new view class that will override > >>> > render function and customising it, but it sounds like overkill to > >>> > me.. > > >>> > ideal solution in addition to setting $viewPath ($this->viewPath = > >>> > 'shared') would be to change name of view file that will be requested > >>> > for rendering, but haven't found a way to do that. > > >>> > any ideas would be appreciated. > >>> > thanks. :) > > >>> -- > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "CakePHP" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to cake-...@googlegroups.com. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<cake-php%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.c > >>> om> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=.
