How to modify login.ctp

I'm a newbie to CakePHP and i'm trying to modify the login.ctp so that it would go to a different DIV tag. I already have a default.ctp layout placed in /v开发者_StackOverflow中文版iews/layout but i don't want the menus to appear on the login page when you bring up the site. How do i go about doing it?

Thanks, Lyman

make a login layout that has no menu, and in login(), set $this->layout= 'login';

in login function, save variable:

$this->set('nomenus', true);

in default.ctp check

if( empty($nomenus) ) {
    ... menus ...
}