Of course, the "Department.1" can be used with the console. But if you have a User than belongsTo Departement, you could implement the parentNode() in the User model that will send back the "Department" along with it's id.
On Jul 7, 4:02 pm, Stinkbug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried the model.id and it didn't work. > > $user_array['foreign_key'] = $user['User']['id']; > $user_array['parent_id'] = 'Department.1'; > $user_array['model'] = 'User'; > $user_array['alias'] = 'User.' . $user['User']['id']; > > but when I use just an id (integer) it does work. > > $user_array['parent_id'] = 2; > > I'm not familiar with the parentNode() method. I couldn't find it in > the API. Is this something that someone else has developed? If so, > where can it be found? > > If you have to use an integer id, surely there has to be an easy way > to retrieve it. I guess it's all fine if you're doing everything > manually, but I want it automated. > > On Jul 3, 5:05 pm, francky06l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > @Stinkbug > > parent, as far as I know should be passed with model.id. However did > > you check the ACL behavior that can do this automatically if you > > implement the parentNode() method in the model (be aware of updating > > the parent though..) ? > > > On Jul 3, 5:01 pm, Stinkbug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To expand on this... > > > > I almost figured out everything that I need to do to get my stuff > > > working. The major problem I'm having now is with the parent_id. Is > > > there anyway to retrieve the id by passing something like Department.1 > > > (this would be the model and foreign_key, or alias)? > > > > In the 1.1 version I could use an alias to set the parent, but that > > > doesn't seem to work in 1.2. I didn't see anything in the API. I > > > could write my own query to retrieve the data I want, but I was just > > > wondering if cake requires the unique id be used to set the parent, is > > > there not a way to retrieve that id? > > > > I did notice a getAro method in the API, but I couldn't figure out how > > > to use it, so I don't know that it would do what I need. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
