I have the following setup: Class Observation hasMany Marks. The Marks Class only has one relevant field: mark_number I am working on the add form for my Observations, and the problem is that I do not know in advance how many Marks a given observation will have. I initialize the form with one mark field called data['Marks'] ['mark_number0'], and then if the user has multiple marks he can click on a "add another mark" link which dynamically creates a new field data['Marks']['mark_number1'] and so on. So far so good. My problem comes to dealing with data validation. First, I need to check that each mark_number is unique and doesn't already exist in the database and if not I need to invalidate the field. I would like to put the validation routine inside my Mark model, but it only has a single field mark_number, and not mark_number0, etc, so I cannot invalidate the appropriate field there.
I can code all of this by hand, but it is ugly and feels wrong as if I am not taking advantage of all the cakey goodness. What is the best practice way to deal with this situation. Thanks for any advice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
