sry, I misread the codelines for the edit/add action you are missing the relationship to user if you have the belongsTo relation set in your post model you still need to fetch it in the find() statement
either use $recursive = 0/1 or better use the containable behavior and "contain"=>array('User') tip: debug your $comment array with pr($comment) to see what you get. On 17 Okt., 15:54, Mitchell Vargo <mitchellva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > I've tried to get it right for some time now, but I can't manage to > make it work. > I get this error when I try to use $comment['User']['username'] > > Notice (8): Undefined index: User [APP\View\Posts\view.ctp, line 51] > > include - APP\View\Posts\view.ctp, line 51 > View::_render() - CORE\Cake\View\View.php, line 598 > View::render() - CORE\Cake\View\View.php, line 365 > Controller::render() - CORE\Cake\Controller\Controller.php, line 900 > Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE\Cake\Routing\Dispatcher.php, line 113 > Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE\Cake\Routing\Dispatcher.php, line 88 > [main] - APP\webroot\index.php, line 93 > > On Oct 17, 11:32 am, flosky <flo.kl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Mitchell, > > > I guess that 'user_id' is the foreign key to the users table? > > If so, you should add a 'hasOne' relationship in the comments model > > (comments have one user). > > When that is working, cake automatically gets the corresponding user > > data when you use find(). > > Now you can pass the results to the view and get the username with > > $post['User']['username']. > > > -flosky > > > On 17 Okt., 11:03, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > did you add > > > $this->displayField = 'username'; > > > to the user model? > > > > On 17 Okt., 02:58, Mitchell Vargo <mitchellva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Is there an easy way of replacing the user_id to username in a view > > > > that looks like this? > > > > > <div class="related"> > > > > <h3><?php echo __('Related Comments');?></h3> > > > > <?php if (!empty($post['Comment'])):?> > > > > <table cellpadding = "0" cellspacing = "0"> > > > > <tr> > > > > <th><?php echo __('Id'); ?></th> > > > > <th><?php echo __('Title'); ?></th> > > > > <th><?php echo __('Content'); ?></th> > > > > <th><?php echo __('Username'); ?></th> > > > > <th class="actions"><?php echo __('Actions');?></th> > > > > </tr> > > > > <?php > > > > $i = 0; > > > > foreach ($post['Comment'] as $comment): ?> > > > > <tr> > > > > <td><?php echo $comment['id'];?></td> > > > > <td><?php echo $comment['title'];?></td> > > > > <td><?php echo $comment['content'];?></td> > > > > <td><?php echo $comment['user_id']; ?></td> > > > > <------- I want to > > > > change this into the users username > > > > <td class="actions"> > > > > <?php echo > > > > $this->Html->link(__('View'), array('controller' => > > > > 'comments', 'action' => 'view', $comment['id'])); ?> > > > > <?php echo > > > > $this->Html->link(__('Edit'), array('controller' => > > > > 'comments', 'action' => 'edit', $comment['id'])); ?> > > > > <?php echo > > > > $this->Form->postLink(__('Delete'), array('controller' > > > > => 'comments', 'action' => 'delete', $comment['id']), null, __('Are > > > > you sure you want to delete # %s?', $comment['id'])); ?> > > > > </td> > > > > </tr> > > > > <?php endforeach; ?> > > > > </table> > > > > <?php endif; ?> > > > > </div> -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php