I will do my best to explain my situation in the hopes it will be clear
enough for someone to help me out:
I currently have a 'Requests' model. This consists of a web form and a
controller that saves one or more records based on the users selection on
the form (for example, if they make a bunch of selections in a multi-select
box, multiple records are generated and saved).
This works fine, but I want all of these 'Requests' to be grouped together
for easy reference, since they are related. I created a new model called
'Groups.' In my 'Requests' model, I put:
var $belongsTo = array('Group' => array('className' => 'Group',
'foreignKey' => 'group_id'));
and created the group_id column in the 'requests' database table.
In the 'Groups' controller, I put
var $hasMany = array('Requests' => array('className' => 'Request'));
Now, in my 'Requests' controller, where I do all of the processing of the
form input and create the records, I tried creating a new 'Group' with
$this->Request->Group->create();
This works, and the 'Group' database record is made (along with the
'Requests' as appropriate), but the 'group_id' field in the 'Requests'
record is not set properly. When I try to do it manually, like setting it
to `$this->Request->data['Group']['id']` or `$this->Request->Group->id`,
CakePHP tells me this value is NULL. So I have no way to know if these
associations are even working at all.
Clearly I'm doing something wrong - do I have to move all of the creating
and saving logic from my 'Requests' controller to my 'Groups' controller?
Seems like this would be a pain. Is there a problem with creating a
"Parent" and a bunch of "Children" at once from the controller of the
"Children?"
For the record - I'm using CakePHP 1.1, and unfortunately cannot upgrade.
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