Re: Rendering text from a controller action?

On Apr 23, 10:50 am, Thomas Allen <thomasmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a given action, how can I manually render text? I'm thinking of an
> analog to "render :text" in Rails.

In what sense? Do you mean that you want to output plaintext headers
also? Or, just toss some text back to the browser?

controller:
$this->layout = 'text';
$this->set('the_text', 'foo');

your_text_action.ctp:
echo $the_text;

layouts/text.ctp:
echo $content_for_layout;

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