I'd recommend jquery instead of cake's ajax (personal preference, but I think jquery is easier to understand than prototype).
Be careful setting all the grades to 0. I don't know your exact situation, but at the school where I work we give parents the ability to see their student's grades online. Parents get really grumpy when their kids have a bunch of 0's for no apparent reason . . . I've been playing with a similar concept. I'm assuming that you have a students table, and each student has many assignments, but also each assignment has many students (you could also do a hasAndBelongsToMany). When the teacher adds an assignment, you could loop through the students and add the assignment to each student with a null or blank grade. Now, you can look at a grid of grades (columns for assignments, rows for students). I'd use the jquery editable plugin or something like it. It works like this - you click on a grade, add the grade, and it calls a cake action via jquery to update that specific assignment grade for that specific student. On Oct 20, 6:46 pm, teknoid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To save multiple records or multiple related models you can use > saveAll(). > > On Oct 20, 7:04 pm, "soldier.coder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Oct 20, 3:49 pm, hydra12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I asked about ajax because that actually makes things easier in some > > > ways. You can set each grade to save via ajax when the teacher moves > > > on to the next grade. It all happens transparently in the background, > > > so no looping through the data. > > > That's pretty hot, actually. Maybe I could add something to the code > > that sets up weights that fills grades for categories with 0's so that > > all changes to the grades would be edits, and then use ajax for the > > grade edits. > > > Looks like I need to learn about cake's implementation of ajax. > > > Thanks for your insights. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
