I have been using the Media Plugin by David Persson and I think it's
great and has saved me a lot of time. I started out with an Invoice
model that hasMany Attachments and everything worked well. I then
added Materials to my invoice and tried added Attachments to a
specific material associated with the Invoice. The extra attachment
is read at the server and saved, but it is saved with the invoice_id,
not the specific material item on that invoice. Here is my data array
as it arrives at the server, via my iPhone app.
[Invoice] => Array
(
[project_id] => 2
[invoice_date] => 2011/10/01
[is_approved] => 1
)
[InvoicedMaterial] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[description] => Diesel Fuel
[amount] => 20
[unit_of_measure] => Gallons
)
)
[Attachment] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[model] => InvoicedMaterial
[alternative] => Diesel Fuel
[file] => Array
(
[name] => Diesel Fuel
[type] => image/jpeg
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpP7Qy7k
[error] => 0
[size] => 901352
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[model] => Invoice
[alternative] => Signature
[file] => Array
(
[name] => 023C1C3D-B63F-442E-87DE-
FC3D270D8740
[type] => image/png
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpkhczsG
[error] => 0
[size] => 5953
)
)
)
[InvoicedLabor] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[description] => Construction Foreman
[amount] => 10
[unit_of_measure] => hrs
)
)
)
My models are setup as follows:
Invoice:
var $hasMany = array(
'InvoicedEquipment' => array(
'className' => 'InvoicedEquipment',
'foreignKey' => 'invoice_id',
'dependent' => false,
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'exclusive' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
'counterQuery' => ''
),
'InvoicedLabor' => array(
'className' => 'InvoicedLabor',
'foreignKey' => 'invoice_id',
'dependent' => false,
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'exclusive' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
'counterQuery' => ''
),
'InvoicedMaterial' => array(
'className' => 'InvoicedMaterial',
'foreignKey' => 'invoice_id',
'dependent' => false,
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => '',
'limit' => '',
'offset' => '',
'exclusive' => '',
'finderQuery' => '',
'counterQuery' => ''
),
'Attachment' => array(
'className' => 'Media.Attachment',
'foreignKey' => 'foreign_key',
'conditions' => array('Attachment.model' => 'Invoice'),
'dependent' => true,
)
);
InvoicedMaterial:
var $hasMany = array(
'Attachment' => array(
'className' => 'Media.Attachment',
'foreignKey' => 'foreign_key',
'conditions' => array('Attachment.model' =>
'InvoicedMaterial'),
'dependent' => true,
));
I'm passing all of the attachments as one array, based on the plugin
"recipes" documentation, but that doesn't seem right. Can the media
plugin handle a nested form being posted and figure out which
attachment should be associated with which model?
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