Both 'selected'=> & 'default'=> seem to do the trick. Thanks!
On May 5, 6:44 am, andy wrote:
> Seehttp://book.cakephp.org/view/199/options-selected. In the view,
> you will need to do something like this:
>
> $form->input('fieldname', array('options' => array($listvalue),
> 'selected' => 'desire
See http://book.cakephp.org/view/199/options-selected. In the view,
you will need to do something like this:
$form->input('fieldname', array('options' => array($listvalue),
'selected' => 'desiredselectvalue') );
On May 4, 3:56 pm, qwanta wrote:
> In the controller I do a find('list') to get an
You can pre-populate the $this->data array:
In your controller method:
$this->data['Model']['field'] = 1;
(where 1 is value you want to pre-select)
or,
in the view:
input("field", array("options"=>$options, "default"=>1) ?
>
On May 4, 9:56 pm, qwanta wrote:
> In the controller I do a find(
In the controller I do a find('list') to get an array ready for
populating a select box. I am quite stumped as to how I would set the
selected index of the select box in the view.
This is a case where the automagic situation (editing a record) is not
applicable - it is a log entry form and a new r
