S. Friss – Design + TechnologyFreelance Interactive Design and Development

I've been trying to work with ajax in CakePHP and it's been a pain in the a$$.  I did find this work around though, which made my life much easier.  In your controller just set a variable, $autoRender to false, then all you have to do is call it at the end of each presentation function.  So it looks something like this:

class UsersController extends AppController
{

var $autoRender = false;

function index()
{
$this->render('index');
}

}