How to display view without template? - joomla

Question

I have view (frontend) in my own component (view.html.php):
class MevViewMev extends JView{
function display($tpl = null){
parent::display($tpl);
}
}
And template:
<?php defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access'); ?>
<div>
ASFADSFDSF
</div>
How to display it without joomla template (head section, styles, etc). I want to call this part of jquery onclick method in the window.

Answer 1

To display the component only add "tmpl=component" parameter to url.
If need to display something besides component's view it can be customized - create "component.php" file in template's root folder and include in it whatever you need.
More templates can be done in the same way - create "some_template.php" in template's root folder and add "tmpl=some_template" parameter to url.

Answer 2

Start Edit
OK so the below works, but I found a better way. In your controller do ...
if (JRequest::getVar('format') != 'raw') {
$url = JURI::current() . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] . '&format=raw';
header('Location: ' . $url);
// or, if you want Content-type of text/html just use ...
// redirect($url);
}
End Edit
You can set 'tmpl' to 'component', as suggested by Babur Usenakunov, in which case scripts and css may be loaded, like ...
JRequest::setVar('tmpl','component');
However if you want to create raw output you can add &format=raw or in your component make a view of type 'raw' ...
Unfortunately the only functional way I can find to make a viewType of raw render correctly is to call exit() after the view class calls parent::display() ...
In your controller.php ...
class com_whateverController() extends JController
{
function __construct()
{
// the following is not required if you call exit() in your view class (see below) ...
JRequest::setVar('format','raw');
JFactory::$document = null;
JFactory::getDocument();
// or
//JFactory::$document = JDocument::getInstance('raw');
parent::__construct();
}
function display()
{
$view = $this->getView('whatever', 'raw');
$view->display();
}
}
then in views/whatever/view.raw.php ...
class com_whateverViewWhatever extends JView
{
public function display($tpl = null)
{
parent::display();
exit; // <- if you dont have this then the output is captured in and output buffer and then lost in the rendering
}
}

Answer 3

I know this comes in very late, but for future readers, here's how I did it for my extension, without editing the template, or adding anything in the URL (since I have control over neither of those):
jimport('joomla.application.component.view');
use \Joomla\CMS\Factory;
// Comp stands for the Component's name and NoTmpl stands for the View's name.
class CompViewNoTmpl extends \Joomla\CMS\MVC\View\HtmlView {
// Force this view to be component-only
public function __construct() {
$app = Factory::getApplication();
$app->input->set('tmpl', 'component');
parent::__construct();
}