Save select box value not ID
I have 2 tables and models 'Friend' and 'Message'. I have a belongsTo association between them, and this is all working fine. The select box in my form is being populated with the correct field, that's perfect, BUT when the form is submitted it saves the ID of that field not the name. Which is obvious as its a INTEGAR field. But I would like to find out if it's at all possible to ALSO save the name that shows in the drop down-list. So let's say the drop-down list is populated with different types of fruits (apples, oranges, cherries and peaches) but when the form is submitted/saved it doesn't save the name of the fruit it saves the ID of that field. Is there anyway to also save the name of the fruit into the database? I am new to CakePHP so I am utterly clueless, but would really appreciate some help. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Save-select-box-value-not-ID-tp28599700p28599700.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
Re: Save select box value not ID
usually you would retrieve the name of the fruit later on by just de- referencing (table joins) its id this way you prevent data redundancy if redundancy is wanted you might want to retrieve the value before actually saving this-data or you can remove the integers prior to displaying the dropdown form - replacing them with the values as well: value1 = value1 value2 = value2 depending on the specific scenario On 18 Mai, 21:22, csj16 chic...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 tables and models 'Friend' and 'Message'. I have a belongsTo association between them, and this is all working fine. The select box in my form is being populated with the correct field, that's perfect, BUT when the form is submitted it saves the ID of that field not the name. Which is obvious as its a INTEGAR field. But I would like to find out if it's at all possible to ALSO save the name that shows in the drop down-list. So let's say the drop-down list is populated with different types of fruits (apples, oranges, cherries and peaches) but when the form is submitted/saved it doesn't save the name of the fruit it saves the ID of that field. Is there anyway to also save the name of the fruit into the database? I am new to CakePHP so I am utterly clueless, but would really appreciate some help. -- View this message in context:http://old.nabble.com/Save-select-box-value-not-ID-tp28599700p2859970... Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
Re: Save select box value not ID
You say you are new to Cake - have you done any web or database development at all? A select box is usually populated from a table that is joined or associated with the table you are updating. You only need to store the id of the related row in 'this' table. To find out what value that id relates to, you do a query with a join. This is standard referential integrity stuff and not just Cake specific. So if you had a table that contained trees and you wanted to know what fruit each tree grows, you'd have a 'trees' table with these fields called 'id, 'name', 'fruit_id'. Then you'd have a table called 'fruits' with fields called 'id' and 'name' (this is the Cake convention - and it is worth sticking to it). If your fruits table looks like this: id : name 1 : Apples 2 : Oranges 3 : Cherries 4 : Peaches ...and you have a row in your trees table like this: id : name : fruit_id 1 : My cherry tree : 3 ...you look up the fruit_id (3) in your fruits table, and you can see that 3 = Cherries. Therefore the tree with the id of 1 grows cherries. This gives you enormous flexibility in the future. I know it's highly unlikely that you'd ever want to do this with fruits and trees, but let's say your tree suddenly starts growing oranges instead of cherries. All you do update the row of the trees table where the id is 1, changing the value in the fruit_id field from 3 to 2. Now when you do the same look up you see that the tree grows oranges. Perhaps a better example is if you wanted to be more precise, and instead of recording your fruit as 'Cherries' you want to record it as 'Red cherries'. All you do is update the 'name' field in the 'fruits' table from 'Cherries' to 'Red cherries'. Now when you do your query all trees that used to grow cherries now grow red cherries. That's a single update. If you were to do what you want to do and store the name of the fruit in the trees table, you'd have to update multiple rows in the trees table instead. That sounds simple enough, but imagine if you had to do that for your entire orchard - that's a lot of updates. And then you have the potential problems caused by a random user changing a couple of trees from 'Cherries' to 'Cheeries' by mistake. If you are new to Cake and these concepts, I'd recommend you read the following parts of the online guide. In particular, look at the section on Baking. This is invaluable stuff. Al you do is build your database, point Cake at it and it will build a simple app for you. Then you can look at the code and see how it all works, and go on from there. http://book.cakephp.org/view/1000/Models http://book.cakephp.org/view/1522/Code-Generation-with-Bake Jeremy Burns jeremybu...@me.com On 18 May 2010, at 20:22, csj16 wrote: I have 2 tables and models 'Friend' and 'Message'. I have a belongsTo association between them, and this is all working fine. The select box in my form is being populated with the correct field, that's perfect, BUT when the form is submitted it saves the ID of that field not the name. Which is obvious as its a INTEGAR field. But I would like to find out if it's at all possible to ALSO save the name that shows in the drop down-list. So let's say the drop-down list is populated with different types of fruits (apples, oranges, cherries and peaches) but when the form is submitted/saved it doesn't save the name of the fruit it saves the ID of that field. Is there anyway to also save the name of the fruit into the database? I am new to CakePHP so I am utterly clueless, but would really appreciate some help. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Save-select-box-value-not-ID-tp28599700p28599700.html Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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 Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
Re: save select
I could be wrong, but I think there's only two ways to solve this. 1. Have a select with possibility to select multiple values, and onsubmit have a javascript function that loops through all the options of it and makes them selected. 2. On submit, have a javascript loop through the options and assign the values to a hidden element. Won't demand you to use a multiple- select. Both of these demand javascript, so maybe a better way would be to assign the values to a hidden field while creating the select on the server. Then again, I guess you use javascript on the page anyway...? cheers / Wille On Jun 25, 10:48 pm, Oscar Burgos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have declare two selectTag in my form and I need to save all valuesg, but from the second select not just selected. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
save select
hi all bakers...I need a little help I have declare two selectTag in my form and I need to save all values from the second select not just selected. any sugestions?? thank you --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
