Layouts in cakephp

[son.of.the.morning]

I am having trouble having different layout for different actions from my controller

 

<?php
class ContactsController extends AppController {
	var $name = "Contacts";
	var $layout = "default";

	function index() {
	}

	function edit_contacts(){
		$this->set('contacts', $this->Contact->find('all'));
                        var $layout = "modal_box"; // i want this layout to have this action

	}
}
?>

[jcombs_31]

Change var $layout = "modal_box"; to $this->layout = "modal_box";

[son.of.the.morning]

Thank you!

[rohitnanda]

think it should be pretty simple. In your app_controller, you could

probably just add this, likely in the afterFilter() method, so that

you can process any login info first:

 

function afterFilter () {

 

    if ( $isUserLoggedIn ) {

        $this->layout = 'logged_in_layout';

    } else {

        $this->layout = 'some_other_layout';

    }

}