selection lists

2006-06-01 Thread monty
i want to fill a selection list based on a table of data called Region. It has two columns, id and region (containing the actual name of the region). To do this i wrote code below. Is there a faster, less convoluted way? This seems like a common task and should be an easier way. Thanyou. ?php

Re: selection lists

2006-06-01 Thread Larry E. Masters aka PhpNut
Controller:$this-set('region_list', $this-Region-generateList());View:?php echo $html-selectTag('Custome/region',$region_list) ?By default the above code looks for id and name in the database table. To change this set var $dsiplayField = 'region'; in your Region

Re: selection lists

2006-06-01 Thread Olivier Percebois-Garve
yes generateList() ;) I use it that way in my code, it should put you on the way: controller: $this-set('categories', $this-Post-Category-generateList()); $this-set('selected_category', $this-params['data']['Category']['id']); view: ?php echo

Re: selection lists

2006-06-01 Thread monty
fantastic! thanks alot --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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]