In your items controller, you have to set the layout, when you detect that it is an AJAX request that you are processing. See how to detect this at http://book.cakephp.org/view/350/Obtaining-Request-Information And here for the layout http://book.cakephp.org/view/51/Controller-Attributes#Page-related-Attributes-layout-and-pageTitle-54
Enjoy, John On Feb 11, 9:22 pm, NickPick <dickreu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The below ajax request works well, but it's using default.ctp as > layout file instad of ajax.ctp. How can I tell it to use ajax.ctp as > layout file? > thanks > > <? $options = array( > 'url'=>array( > 'controller'=>'items', > 'action'=>'view', > 'before'=>'startLoading()', > $item['Item']['id'] > ), > 'update'=>'item_view'); > ?> > <? echo $ajax->link('Show the details now','/items/ > view/'.$item['Item']['id'],$options);?> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@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=en