Thank you Geoff for the link and Nate for the explanation. I didn't
know afterFind could be used with generateList in this manner. Very
helpfull
Gary Dalton
On 10/16/07, Geoff Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/search?group=cake-php&q=generateList+multiple+field
>
> THis one in particular
> http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/c5709f46064b4106/853e167148d67f7d?lnk=gst&q=generateList+multiple+field#853e167148d67f7d
> Basically nate suggests using afterFind to create a virtual full_name
> field to use for $displayField
>
> Geoff
> --
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> On Oct 17, 1:24 pm, checkerboard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > Currently I am having two tables authors and books having M2M
> > relationship.
> > The author table has three attributes id ,fname and lname. Now I am
> > trying to display a select tag in the book entry form consisting of
> > the author last name and first name.
> > If I define the var $displayField as last name or first name then it
> > won't be sufficient since it will display only one field. What I want
> > is to concatenate both the first name and last name into one and
> > display it in the select tag. How can I implement this.
>
>
> >
>
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