Hiding the Administrator or Front end layout template in Joomla!

It’s taken a good part of an hour trying to find how to disable the administrator or front end template for Joomla.
So I thought I’d just make a post in an effort to turn this frustrated energy into something positive.

To display only the contents of the view on the page without being framed by a template, the tmpl variable needs to be set to “component”.

Something along the lines of having the following snippet in the controller method:
JRequest::setVar(’tmpl’, ‘component’);

Either that, or adding “&tmpl=component” to the URL.

I remember doing it before, however it’s been a while.

All attempts at searching on how to do the above proved frustratingly impossible as the organic search results for google are filled with people asking how to “disable legacy” modes, “templates”, “modules”, “plugins”, how to make your joomla admin panel rock(!!!!) – not what I was looking for!

Hope this helps other Joomla! component developers