Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
Hi, I've noticed that CakePHP has an autoComplete helper, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make it work for my application: http://book.cakephp.org/view/632/autoComplete I have 3 controllers: PracticeItems PracticeInstances PracticeSessions A PracticeSession will have 1 or more

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
So I've looked further into this, and I tried the obvious solution It seems that the items in $this-data are assigned a number from the name field of the input element. name=data[PracticeInstance][0][tempostart] means the form will feed the data back as $this-

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
So I've looked further into this, and I tried the obvious solution It seems that the items in $this-data are assigned a number from the name field of the input element. name=data[PracticeInstance][0][tempostart] means the form will feed the data back as $this-

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
So I've looked further into this, and I tried the obvious solution It seems that the items in $this-data are assigned a number from the name field of the input element. name=data[PracticeInstance][0][tempostart] means the form will feed the data back as $this-

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
practice_sessions_controller.php: http://pastebin.com/XHw37WS0 practice_sessions/add.ctp: http://pastebin.com/Z5fGgfxV practice_items_controller.php: (autoCompleteName) http://pastebin.com/SLN72D4T On 16 Apr, 19:38, Johnny Ferguson hyperfle...@gmail.com wrote: So I've looked further into

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
digging through the DOM further, I notice that the autocomplete form element creates a div after itself with id=PracticeItemName_autoComplete. It has the same id for each autocomplete form (which would explain why only one works), so I guess my question comes down to: How can I specify the name

Re: Adding multiple form fields with autocomplete

2010-04-16 Thread Johnny Ferguson
I can edit the name of the helper div with the 'div_id' option, but it doesn't seem to let both fields use the autocomplete function. At this point, I'm not sure how to diagnose the issue any further. On 16 Apr, 19:48, Johnny Ferguson hyperfle...@gmail.com wrote: digging through the DOM further,