I'm not following. $letters has just the names of the buttons and their identification (can't really word this any better, basically the idea is that once I click on a link/button, the identity of that button gets passed to the controller and it does something specific for it).
It would seem $widgets and $letter are the same... then why not just use $letter? On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit < [email protected]> wrote: > Have a controller action, something like: > > function filter($letter) { > $widgets = $this->Widget->find( > 'all', > array( > 'conditions' => array( > substr('Widget.name', 0, 1) => $letter > ) > ) > ); > > $this->set(compact('letter', 'widgets')); > > } > > Then $widgets is a variable in your view that contains only those whose > name starts with $letter. You can use the $letter variable to highlight the > href for that letter. > > There are better ways of doing this (you could store the first letter of > 'Widget.name' in a table field and search on that and you could use a model > function too. But this concept would work. > > Jeremy Burns > Class Outfit > > http://www.classoutfit.com > > On 8 Nov 2011, at 16:12, Yves S. Garret wrote: > > What do you mean? <a href? > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Benni Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Before someone tells you how to do what you want, let me ask you: Why >> don't you use a simple link instead of a form-button? That would make >> less markup and more sense to me. And with a certain amount of css you >> could easily make the link look like a button just to please your >> executives ;-)... >> >> Regards, Benni. >> >> >> >> On 8 Nov., 16:54, "Yves S. Garret" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Before I even go on, here is what I have: >> > >> > View:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/404159005 >> > Controller:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/21698870 >> > >> > The idea that I'm trying to do is have a row of buttons spanning the >> > alphabet. The user clicks on the button and then it lists all of the >> > people with their last name starting with the specific letter. This is >> a >> > requirement, yes, I know, you can just type in 'R' and hit Enter and the >> > same thing will be done, no, this did not please powers-that-be. Moving >> > on... >> > >> > I didn't want to create a function for _every_ button. That seemed >> painful >> > and just bad coding. I would like to call that method and then pass in >> a >> > value (in this case, a string of one length) and the method will >> perform a >> > specific function based on the input. I tried this line of code: >> > echo $this->Form->button($letter, array('action' => >> 'view_admit_lookup')); >> > >> > I did some digging online: >> http://book.cakephp.org/view/1415/buttonhttp://api.cakephp.org/file/cake/libs/view/helpers/form.php#method-Fo. >> .. >> > >> > I couldn't find anything that would do this for me easily. Am I missing >> > something? Did I look into the wrong docs? >> >> -- >> Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> http://tv.cakephp.org >> Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help >> others with their CakePHP related questions. >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] For more options, visit this group >> at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> > > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
