App::import('Model','Event');
App::uses('EventsController','Controller');
App::uses('index','View');

$EventModel = new Event();
$EventController = new EventsController();
$EventController->constructClasses();

$EventView = new View($EventController);
$EventController->index();
$EventView->render('index');

echo $EventView->viewVars['content_for_layout'];

Events
Notice (8): Undefined variable: Events [APPViewEventsindex.ctp, line 9]
Warning (2): Invalid argument supplied for foreach() [APPViewEventsindex.ctp, line 9]
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$this->autoRender = false; // this should be set to false so it doesn't render
$myview = $this->render();

App::uses('Folder', 'Utility');
App::uses('File', 'Utility');

public function index(){
   $this->autoRender = false;
   $output = $this->render();

   $file = new File('relative/path/to/file.php', true, 0644);
   $file->write($output);
}