After upgrading form 1.3.7 to 1.3.8 we encountered a problem with handling custom field names. This commit is supposed to fix custom name attributes, but when we pass a name that ends in a "[]" it is not handled correctly.
This example code produces the following: $this->Form->fields = array( 'Model.field.' ); Note the trailing dot! It is not supposed to be there as it results in a blackhole. echo $this->Form->hidden( 'Model.field', array( 'value' => '', 'id' => 'ModelField', 'secure' => false ) ); foreach ( $items as $key => $value ) { echo $this->Form->input( 'somefield', array( 'name' => 'data[Model] [field][]', 'type' => 'checkbox', 'id' => 'ModelField' . $key 'label' => $value, 'hiddenField' => false, 'after' => 'some html' ) ); } A quick fix (though not thoroughly) would be to alter the line 2196 in the helpers/form.php and change the line from preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $options['name'], $matches); to: preg_match_all('/\[(.+?)\]/', $options['name'], $matches); Is this a bug or a change of behaviour? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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