Zend Framework 2: Auto disable layout for ajax calls

Question

An AJAX request to one of my controller actions currently returns the full page HTML.

I only want it to return the HTML (.phtml contents) for that particular action.

Answer 1

The best is to use JsonModel which returns nice json and disable layout&view for you.

public function ajaxCallAction()
    {
        return new JsonModel(
            [
                'success' => true
            ]
        );
    }