You don't have to have two forms, you just have to save things in the right order.
I do this on one of my volunteer signup (http://volunteercake.sf.net). Before the user is logged in, I display a list of jobs they can sign up for, if they click on the 'signup' link, I take them to a page that does both a user add, and creates the data to signify that new user is associated with the job slot they chose. I take the data from the form, insert a new user as normal, grab the user id with getLastInsertedId, and then do a save for the UserSlot that creates the association with the new user. I do this with the following code (note that the _register function is shared code that is used by the register and signup views): /** * This method handle the user registration process. * It will first of all, get the user basic information. * After user submit the information, a hash key will be generated and * stored in the database. An email will then send to user and pending * for user activation */ function _register() { $valid = false; $this->User->setValidation('register'); if ( !empty( $this->data ) ){ if ( $this->data['User']['user_password'] == $this->Auth->password( $this->data['User'] ['user_pass_confirm'])) { // This function does the creation of the user and initial setup // of the ACOs for them. $this->User->create(); if ( $this->User->save($this->data) ){ $this->data['User']['user_id'] = $this->User- >getLastInsertId(); $this->data['UserSlot']['user_id'] = $this->data ['User']['user_id']; $this->save_aro($this->data); $this->Auth->login($this->data); // do other stuff here like send activation email to user // or/and redirect to other page $this->Session->setFlash(__('The User has been saved', true)); $valid = true; } } else { $this->Session->setFlash('password mismatch'); } } // Return whether we successfully completed the registration or not return $valid; } /** * Sign up - this method creates a User, and then signs them up for the * slot they picked. Used by links in the page that pass a slot_id. */ function sign_up() { $this->User->setValidation('register'); if (!empty($this->data)) { // Try to register (assumes we set up the User data in the form if ($this->_register()) { $this->User->UserSlot->create(); if ($this->User->UserSlot->save($this->data ['UserSlot'])) { $user_slot_id = $this->User->UserSlot- >getLastInsertId(); $this->data['UserSlot']['user_slot_id'] = $user_slot_id; $slot_id =$this->data['UserSlot']['slot_id']; $job_id = $this->User->UserSlot->Slot->field ('job_id','Slot.slot_id = '.$slot_id); $this->Session->setFlash(__('Slot Signup and Registration complete', true)); $this->redirect('/jobs/view/'.$job_id, null, true); } else { $this->Session->setFlash(__('Signup Signup incomplete', true)); } } // Falls through if the registration failed ... } else { // No POST data - check if we passed params ... if ($this->passedArgs['user_id'] > 0) { // Try to save the UserSlot for the User ... if ($this->User->UserSlot->save(array('UserSlot' => array( 'slot_id' => $this->passedArgs['slot_id'], 'user_id' => $this- >passedArgs['user_id'])))) { $this->Session->setFlash(__('Signup complete', true)); } else { $this->Session->setFlash(__('Signup incomplete', true)); } $this->redirect($this->referer(),null, true); } // If we got passed a slot_id, then we save it in the UserSlot array if (isset($this->passedArgs['slot_id'])) { // Set the slot to the one we got passed ... $this->data['UserSlot']['slot_id'] = $this->passedArgs ['slot_id']; } } } On Jan 18, 1:16 am, "Jon Bennett" <jmbenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can't have an Event.user_id if there's no User. You're doing this > > backwards. > > yep, so the order of things (doing it event first would be) > > * show new event form > * on submit, save data to create a new Event record > * grab the 'lastInsertId()' of the event record > * pass this to the view to use in your User form, eg User.event_id > * on submit, grab the event id out of the data array, then save the > user data to create a new form > * if all ok, grab the 'lastInsertId()' of the user record > * update the 'user_id' field of the Event you created previously with > the User id you just created > > It's really quite long winded though, I would go for 1 form > personally, not 2. If you have a lot of fields, you could use some JS > to show/hide the 2 sections. If you don't want to go the JS route, > create the User first. This would have the added benefit of working > for Users who've already registered as well, as you just need to check > for a logged in user and grab that ID rather than show the 'new user' > form. > > hth > > jon > > -- > > jon bennett > w:http://www.jben.net/ > iChat (AIM): jbendotnet Skype: jon-bennett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
