Greetings,

I stumbled on to Akelos recently and am very impressed so far with the framework. The user/example documentation not so much, but I hope to help with that :) Bermi & Co, you guys have done an awesome job!

I have a simple application that I'm using for testing (looking for something better than CI - how I stumbled on to Akelos :-D ) but I do not want to use the auto render functionality.
Essentially, I get a result from a mysql DB and parse in to an XML output via xmlwriter. However, I'm doing this all in my controller, and I only want clean xml output.

When running my test, I get my xml document and also the HTML code stating "warning: missing template ... index.tpl" & "fatal error: no tpl.php... or delegate template found for index..."

so, my question: is there a way to turn off or disable the render function?

Thanks in advance!
-Paul

as soon as you invoke a render by yourself inside an action, the default action will be dismissed.

so you could

 $this->renderText('<xml ...');

and f.i.

$this->Response->addHeader(array('content-type'=>'text/xml'));

(I highly recommend using a newer version than 0.8)

The problem here is that we're flushing the Response-object. echo'ing is not a way to go. Either render a string with ->renderText() or work in another way directly with $this->Response.

 //that would be
 $this->Response->addHeader(array(...
 $this->Response->body = [...]

You can assign an object to the ->body which implements ->stream() if you must. Otherwise it takes text.

//e.g.
public function stream()
{
    echo .... //set implicit flush
}