I figured out the correct name convention. Thanks
On Oct 31, 8:52 am, MDB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe if I explain what I am doing better. Basically, I have a form > that asks for a birthday. We do not want the users to feel > uncomfortable by asking for thier year of birth so I have two drop > down boxes, one for the month (<select name='PostDobmonth' > id='PostDobmonth'>) and one for the year (<select name='PostDobday' id > = 'PostDobday' >). Then since the DB field is a date, I and creating > a default year by doing this: > > $this->data['Customer']['dob'] = '1901'.$this- > > >form['PostDobmonth'].'-'.$_POST['PostDobday']; > > What is the correct format or way to use the form help and dropdown > boxes like this? > > Thanks > > On Oct 31, 8:25 am, "Gabriel Gilini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Are you building your form with the Form Helper? Because it seems to me that > > there are no naming conventions at all there. > > > Cheers > > > Gabriel Gilini > > >www.usosim.com.br > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:46 AM, MDB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The form values do not show up when I do that, they do when I do a > > > debug($this) and appear like this: > > > > [form] => Array > > > ( > > > [Test1] => 04 > > > [Test2] => 05 > > > ) > > > > How do I access these values? > > > I have tried $this->form and $_POST['Test1'] however I always get an > > > undefined index or property error. > > > > On Oct 30, 9:21 pm, thatsgreat2345 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > add debug($this->data); to your controller that is receiving the > > > > submitted data. It will display the structure of $this->data > > > > > On Oct 30, 6:59 am, MDB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > How do you get form data that is not part of a controller? I have a > > > > > select / drop down box called dobDay, then in the controller, I have > > > > > tried $this->data['dobDay'], $_POST['dobDay'] and > > > $this->data['Customer']['dobDay'] (customer = name of form) and nothing > > > > > > works. Can someone please help? TIA- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
