Hi Reader's,
Welcome to FindNerd, today we are going to discuss apply layout in CakePHP.

Layouts is a very important feature in a CakePHP web application, by default layout in (app/View/Layouts/default.ctp) file. But we can apply different layout in pages as per our requirement.

By default layout location is:

app/View/Layouts/default.ctp

When setting a layout in our CakePHP application, we have to follow below cases:

Case- 1- If we don’t need any layout for our controller method, then we have to set the layout property Null.

we can see below example:

<?php 
    class UsersController extends AppController {
      Var $layout = Null; // For all actions
      public function index(){
      $this->layout = Null; // For particular action
      }
    }


?>

Case- 2- If we want to apply any layout in our pages, then we have to set a different layout in our action.
 we can see below example:

<?php 
    function index(){
       $this->layout='indexlayout'; //app/views/layouts/indexlayout.ctp
    }
    function view(){
      $this->layout = 'viewlayout'; //app/views/layouts/viewlayout.cpt
    }

?>

I hope this blog will help you to apply layout in your CakePHP application.