In User model:
var $displayField = 'username';
Then find('list') will return an array as id => username
On Mar 17, 8:50 pm, abocanegra <aaronbocane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to learn more about associating through models. My current
> issue is that I am attempting to design the post add function that I
> created following the tutorial so that I can select the user by
> username rather than user_id. I want to have the value of the drop
> down be user_id and the option be username. I have changed the add
> function in controller to find('all') but that only gives me
> everything in the users database. I have repeatedly failed to be able
> to isolate the username from this. Below is some of the code I have
> been playing with.
>
> add view
> <?php
> echo $this->Form->input('user_id');
> echo $this->Form->input('title');
> echo $this->Form->input('body');
> ?>
>
> add function from controller
>
> function add() {
> if (!empty($this->data)) {
> $this->Post->create();
> if ($this->Post->save($this->data)) {
> $this->Session->setFlash(sprintf(__('The %s
> has been saved', true), 'post'));
>
> $this->redirect(array('action' =>
> 'index'));
> } else {
> $this->Session->setFlash(sprintf(__('The %s
> could not be saved. Please, try again.',
>
> true), 'post'));
> }
> }
> $users = $this->Post->User->find('list');
> $this->set(compact('users'));
> }
>
> Belongsto from Model
>
> var $belongsTo = array(
> 'User' => array(
> 'className' => 'User',
> 'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
> 'conditions' => '',
> 'fields' => '',
> 'order' => ''
> )
> );
>
> Any advice for a clean way to pull data from the Users table from
> within the Posts add view would be appreciated.
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