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How to prevent Controller from sending view

I'm communicating with my controller via AJAX and requesting an action. But depending to the result on the said controller, I want it to return particular values, but by now it return a whole "index" template.

I just want it to return what I say it to return. How can I do that?

Example:

// In some view...
$.post('my/action', send, function(res){
    // 'res' variable should be 'true' or 'false', not the whole View html, etc...
});


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edited Sep '14 
$this->view->disable();
$response = new Phalcon\Http\Response(),

// Do things here.
$varWithThingsDone = 'Doing things.';

$response->setJsonContent(array(
    'response' => $varWithThingsDone
));

You might want to know that you can also check if the post is from AJAX:

$this->request->isAjax();


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@RompePC perfect, worked like a charm, thanks.