Enabling CORS in CakePHP app

Question

I am trying to enable CORS for an API built in CakePHP so that all requests are accessible with the following in the AppController:

public function beforeFilter(         


        

Answer 1

Based on what I found out here: Sending correct JSON content type for CakePHP

The correct way to return JSON in CakePHP is like so:

$this->response->type('json');
$this->response->body(json_encode(array('message'=>'Hello world!')));

This is because the headers can be overridden and therefore the CORS doesn't work unless you do it the 'proper' way using the response object in Cake.