Do you just want the raw mark-up? I figured you needed the *processed*
view. I don't see hw file_get_contents() would help with that.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:30 AM, qwanta<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Experimenting a bit more, it seems that another straightforward way to
> do this is use the php function "file_get_contents" to get a string
> with the view.
> The advantage is that any view can be accessed even in a different
> cake app (as mine is).
>
> On Jun 5, 10:13 am, qwanta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks brian. I didn't know render returned a string - I had looked up
>> the function in the book (where the return val isn't documented) but
>> not in the source code.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 12:47 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Have a look at Controll:render() method. It returns a string that you
>> > could write to a file. However, I'm not sure how that might affect
>> > also rendering the same view to the browser.
>>
>> >http://api.cakephp.org/view_source/controller/#line-755http://book.ca...
>>
>> > I suppose, if for some reason, calling render() twice (once manually,
>> > to save your file, and again automatically, as usual) will mess things
>> > up for the browser output, you could write the string to a file, then
>> > echo the same string. You might have to set the appropriate headers,
>> > though.
>>
>> > But that's all speculation. Try calling render yourself to write to
>> > the file and see if Cake wwill still call it automatically for browser
>> > output, as normal.
>>
>> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:10 PM, qwanta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > I am drawing a blank on this one, any help appreciated. Basically my
>> > > view is a calibration record that also needs to be saved in a folder
>> > > for backup purposes. Is it possible to save the view as an htm file,
>> > > just as if you selected "Save Page As" in Firefox?
> >
>

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