Re: chaging default model

2007-12-16 Thread jon
Hi Grant, Thanks for the reply, I'll check it out and let you know if it works! BTW sorry if my thread appears twice everyone, my Google groups seems to be playing up today! J --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: chaging default model

2007-12-16 Thread jon
On Dec 16, 9:23 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 16, 2007 1:18 PM, Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps I am misunderstanding the problem you are trying to explain > here. What you have is one section of your page that contains a form > that someone can alter, r

Re: chaging default model

2007-12-16 Thread Grant Cox
For the form helper - if you have $form->create('YourModel'); then the form helper will automatically use the "YourModel" model for the form. However, you can also create each form item with $form- >input('OtherModel.somefield') to use any other model. The data that prepopulates these fields is

Re: chaging default model

2007-12-16 Thread Chris Hartjes
On Dec 16, 2007 1:18 PM, Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to achieve this change, as RequestAction > clearly doesn't work. I need to change it so that the form helper > (using the value function in helper.php) will populate, as it takes > its criteria from $this->da

chaging default model

2007-12-16 Thread Jon Miller
Does anyone know a way to change the default model used by a page? I need to try to 'fool' Cake into believing it's running from a different URL in part of the page. My example is for classified listings. On my listings index page, underneath the main content from the listings controller, I have