Why are you using a form field at all? If you just want to display the data then just output the data as text.
On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 2:13:58 PM UTC+3, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm using CakePHP 2.4.9 > In my application I want to have a readonly field where I display data > which cannot be changed. E.g., a persons country: there is a hidden field > with the country ID and a readonly text field with the countries name. The > user can see the persons country but is not able to change it. So I do in > the edit.ctp > > > $this->Form->input('Person.country_id', array('type' => 'hidden', ...)); > > $this->Form->input(null, array('type' => text, 'value' => 'Country', > 'readonly' => 'readonly', ...) > > The expected outcome is that only the data of the hidden field are posted > on submit but not the data of the readonly field. > But what I have is that both fields have the name '[Person][country_id]' > and both fields are part of the submit data. > > Is there a way to format such informative readonly fields like any other > form data, but not include them in the form data on submit? > > In the FormHelper I see that the setEntity does not change _entityPath if > the $fieldName parameter is null, it just remains what it was before. Is > that intended? > > I can, of course, use an invalid model. e.g. > > $this->Form->input('Invalid.country', ...) > But that looks like an ugly hack to me. > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
