Dear all, I am having a problem with radio boxes in CakePhP - specifically $this- >request->data is not holding the values that the user inputs when the page is reloaded; e.g. when the form has invalid inputs. This is a considerable problem because its a very large form. Code is here: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1065399785. (Ugly code, please don't lynch me.)
So the problem is mostly to do with FormHelper and radio button inputs but it may also be to do with 'not doing things the right way' or 'the cake way'. Perhaps some background would help... The client has been very clear about what the registration form should like and has specified between 2 and 3 dozen inputs of the kind, e.g., 'Do you have heart problems? [Yes/No] Please give details: [textarea]'. To avoid data inconsistency (what if they click 'no' but then proceed to give details of their heart problems?) I made the decision early on to only record heart_problem_details as a nullable text field in the database. If the field is null, we can assume the user does not have heart problems... So I made a function to print out a radio button using FormHelper along with some Jquery to show/hide the container div and empty the text input. Not the most elegent way to do it.. and as a result neither the model nor the database has a has_heart_problems field as in this example. Questions: -Is $this->request->data not holding the values that the user inputs because FormHelper is being called from within a function, or because there is no corresponding field in the database or model? -Is there a better / more cake way to achieve this functionality than with a function in the view? -Is it strictly nessesary that the model be aware of the fields used in $this->Form-> etc. in the view? Can individual fields in the model be decoupled from the database? Would this solve the problem? -Was the decision not to hold most booleans in the database a bad design idea? Would you reccomend I refactor the database to hold the booleans? What about data inconsistency (.e.g user answers 'no' to 'has_heart_problems', then types a value into 'heart_problems_details'? Full working copy of code here: http://eventsafetyalliance.co.uk/register (from page 5 onwards) All the best, -- 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
