What we are trying to show you is that you don't need to go to the overhead of
using loads of forms; simple links will work. They also have the advantage that
you can distribute the link.
echo $this->Html->link(
'A',
array(
'controller' => 'widgets',
'action' => 'filter',
'a'
)
);
echo $this->Html->link(
'B',
array(
'controller' => 'widgets',
'action' => 'filter',
'b'
),
array(
'class' => 'selected' // because the user clicked 'B'
)
);
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Class Outfit
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echo $this->Html->link(
'C',
array(
'controller' => 'widgets',
'action' => 'filter',
'c'
)
);
Could render these with a for/next loop of course.
In your filter action, $letter = 'b'. $widgets is set to the returned find
(where Widgets.name starts with 'b').
One change I should make is to convert the first letter of the name to lower
case, so something like this:
function filter($letter) {
$widgets = $this->Widget->find(
'all',
array(
'conditions' => array(
strtolower(substr('Widget.name', 0, 1)) =>
$letter
)
)
);
$this->set(compact('letter', 'widgets'));
}
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On 8 Nov 2011, at 17:48, Yves S. Garret wrote:
> 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?
>>
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