Json response for my cakephp application

Question

I am using cakephp 2.1 and I am a newbie. As Cakephp an ORM based, Can anyone tell me how would I get the data response in json? What steps I have to follow? please help!

Answer 1

This question has been answered countless times by now... A nice overall explanation can he found here.

There are two options in Cake:

1. Cake has JSON views that you can use to return data.

2. An empty layout and a view that returns JSON encoded data like:

   echo json_encode($data)

   Of course that data must be set prior in the Controller:

   $dataFromDb = $this->Model->find('all');

   $this->set('data', $dataFromDB);

   And you also must set Content-Type: application/json as a header.