In your form, you can have model and field names that don't actually
correspond to your actual model files, or database fields. So, in your
form you could have:
$html->input("Sender/name")
$html->input("Sender/email")
$html->input("Receiver1/name")
$html->input("Receiver1/email")
...
$html->input("Receiver2/name")
$html->input("Receiver2/email")
then in your controller, loop over the form data (
$this->data['Reciever1'] will be set ), and validate each email address
inside the controller. Use the same regular expression as the model
validation would :
if ( preg_match(VALID_EMAIL, $this->data['Reciever1']['email']) )
Any fields that fail validation, set a message. It would be good to
use the Model invalidate() function, but I don't think it work with
these made up model names (Receiver1 etc). Anyway, if there are no bad
email addresses, then save the sender and receiver objects. These may
still fail validation and not save, as you may have additional Model
validation. Saving is really easy, just pass the appropriate part of
the data array
if ( $this->Receiver->save( $this->data['Receiver1'] ) )
Hope that helps.
On Oct 31, 5:51 am, "flemieux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe this has been answered before, and I couldn't find the answer in
> my extensive search (or I was not looking for the right ting), but I am
> having a hard time figuring out a way to do this in Cake elegantly.
>
> Basically, I have to do a very simple "Send to a friend" form, where a
> sender (name, email) has the ability to send an email to up to "n"
> receivers (name, email). The sender has the ability to "Add" boxes to
> fill in more emails.
>
> I'm trying to do this using existing helpers and model structure (I use
> html helper for form rendering), and I have 2 models (Sender and
> Receiver), but I can't seem to find how I could "validate" the form,
> save everything in the DB, and send the appropriate email given the
> structure of the platform.
>
> Will I have to program the whole thing by workarounds and such, or has
> anyone ever found a clever solution to this common problem?
>
> Enlighten me, tell me I oversaw something :D
>
> Thanks,
>
> flemieux--
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