In your controller you may want to render a different view than what would conventionally be done.
You can do this by calling render() directly. Once you have called render() CakePHP will not try to re-render the view:
class PagesController extends AppController {
function your_action() {
$this->render('custom_file');
}
}
This would render app/View/Pages/custom_file.ctp instead of app/View/Pages/your_action.ctp
