Yeah, I thought about that.
But what happens if a user changes the value of the hidden field
AdvancedEntry.id?
So I would have to check if the field has the right value. And in that
case I could just drop the hidden field.
Or am I missing something?
Regards
Guenther
grigri wrote:
> Add a hidden field containing the AdvancedEntry id to the form:
>
> echo $form->input('BasicEntry.bacon');
> echo $form->input('AdvancedEntry.id');
> echo $form->input('AdvancedEntry.eggs');
>
> (The `id` of the BasicEntry is transmitted to the edit action as the
> 1st parameter, so you don't need to do this for the primary model. It
> doesn't hurt, though)
>
> (id fields are hidden by default, so you don't need to specify it)
>
> hth
> grigri
>
> On Oct 8, 9:45 am, Günther Theilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> let's say there are two models:
>>
>> BasicEntry hasOne AdvancedEntry
>> AdvancedEntry belongsTo BasicEntry
>>
>> In the advanced_entries table in the DB there is a field called
>> "basic_entry_id"
>>
>> In views/basic_entries_edit.ctp there is something like this:
>>
>> $form->input('BasicEntry.foo');
>> $form->input('AdvancedEntry.bar');
>>
>> In the basic_entries_controller/edit method I have:
>>
>> $this->BasicCity->save($this->data);
>>
>> which saves only the data for the BasicEntry.
>> So I assumed I have to use saveAll() which doesn't work quite as I expected.
>>
>> If I don't set $this->data['AdvancedEntry']['id'] manually before
>> saveAll I get an INSERT instead of an UPDATE.
>> I set the value with something like this:
>>
>> $this->data['AdvancedEntry']['id'] =
>> $this->BasicEntry->AdvancedEntry->field('id', array(
>> 'basic_entry_id' => $this->data['BasicEntry']['id']));
>>
>> Do I really have to do this manually or is there an automagic cake-like way?
>>
>> Regards
>> Guenther
> >
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