Hi All, In order to learn cake I created a simple database to model invoices It has three tables
clients -> hasMany -> invoices -> hasMany -> lineitems I then used cake bake to create a starting app. When viewing an Invoice it automatically displays the related LineItems as expected. Then under that there is a button (link) to add a new lineitem. When you click this the add form shows but with a drop down box for invoice_id. I am trying to change this because I want it to pass the invoice_id of the currently viewed invoice and pre-fill that field. I have successfully passed the invoice_id to the Invoicecontroller::add method through the url query. The problem is trying to do the following.... Get the form to show the invoice_id passed to the controller method as a read only - non-drop down and to pass that back to the controller for the save once the user has entered the data. The formhelper seems to automagically create a dropdown box for; echo $this->Form->input('invoice_id'); even if I don't send the list of invoices from the controller using; $invoices = $this->Lineitem->Invoice->find('list'); $this->set(compact('invoices')); I can't seem to find any documentation or example of someone pre- filling certain fields to send to the add.ctp view. Links to examples or any other help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Janimal PS. I come from a background of C++ (strictly OO) applications development so maybe I am just thinking about this in the wrong way? -- 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