I'm a dough-head. Sorry, I didn't read your post correctly.
But, would you really need to change the name f any countries? Those
don't change too often. And when one did, I'd think you'd want to
update the main DB record for it rather than the association to some
other model.
If what you want to do is to update the list of associated countries
to your model, you could do:
$form->select('Country.Country', $countries, null, array('class' =>
'Required', 'multiple' => 'checkbox'));
(note the double "Country"--that's important)
This will create checkboxes for each country. I can't remember,
offhand, how to make the associated ones checked (sorry).
Your $countries var would be an array gotten from a find('list') call
in the controller. Or, you could replace it with
$this->requestAction('Countries/getList') if you had an appropriate
controller/action for that.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, plinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I understand what you are saying but what I need is to be able
> to edit mutliple items at once.
> For example if I have to edit 20 countries, clicking on every one,
> editing it and saving it would take me alot more time then selecting
> the ones I need to edit and having them presented in 1 page to be
> edited and saved.
> I also need to validate them but, for example, being all
> "Country.name" I don't know how to obtain this.
>
> For the part about the parser, Thanks! I'm pretty new to php and
> cakephp, but willing to learn.
>
>
>
> On Apr 22, 6:49 pm, "b logica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You might find it simpler to, instead creating a form, to put links
> > around the country names pointing to an edit method. In the edit view,
> > create one form to edit the table fields and one form to delete. So
> > you have something like:
> >
> > <h1>Edit Canada</h1>
> >
> > echo $form->create('Country', array('action' => 'delete');
> > echo $form->hidden('Country.id', array('value' => $some_var));
> > echo $form->submit('delete');
> > echo $form->end();
> >
> > echo $form->create('Country', array('action' => 'edit');
> > ...
> > echo $form->submit('edit');
> > echo $form->end();
> >
> > This way, each action points directly to the corresponding method and
> > you only have to deal with one item at a time. I realise that this may
> > not be practical but it may work for you.
> >
> > Regarding $some_var above, your code appears to assume that the
> > country IDs & names are going to line up with your counter var $i. I
> > may be missing something but that looks odd to me. I'd think it's be
> > better (if your $countries array is constructed as $id => $name) to do
> > it with a while like so:
> >
> > foreach ($countries as $key => $name)
> > {
> > $html->link($name, "countries/edit/${id}");
> >
> > }
> >
> > I've used my link suggestion but it's just as applicable to a form
> > setup like you have.
> >
> > BTW, in your views, you don't need to put <?php ... ?> around every
> > line. If you don't have any HTML markup to add then you can just open
> > a block:
> >
> > <?php
> > echo $form->create(array('url'=>'/countries/process'));
> >
> > for($i =0; $i<$countries; $i++) {
> > echo $form->hidden('Country'.$i.'.Country.id');
> > echo $form->input('Country'.$i.'.Country.name');
> >
> > }
> >
> > echo $form->submit('Save', array('name'=>'save'));
> > echo $form->end();
> > ?>
> >
> > Otherwise, you're making the parser (and anyone who has to look at
> > your code) work a lot harder than necessary ;-)
>
>
>
> >
>
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