JsonView for CakePHP

Description

Renders the ‘result’ view variables as json, with support for JsonP

Installation

• Submodule:
  • git submodule add git://github.com/Pagebakers/JsonView.git path/to/app/plugins/json_view
  • git submodule init
  • git submodule update
• Clone:
  • git clone git://github.com/Pagebakers/JsonView.git path/to/app/plugins/json_view
• Download zip
  • Download http://github.com/Pagebakers/JsonView/zipball/master
  • Extract to your app/plugins folder
  • Rename the extracted folder to json_view
    • The resulting structure should be app/plugins/json_view/views/json.php

Usage

• To use it in every action of a controller, add it to your beforeFilter:

function beforeFilter() {
	$this->view = 'JsonView.Json';
}

• or set it as a class variable

var $view = 'JsonView.Json'

• To initialize the view in whatever function you want it to be usable in

function action($id = NULL) {
	$this->view = 'JsonView.Json';
}

• Then set json variables to the ‘result’

function action($id = NULL) {
	$this->view = 'JsonView.Json';
	
	$result = array('of', 'results', 'for', 'view');
	$this->set(compact('result'));
}