Hi Luka
This sounds like a job for Set::combine() :
<?php
$options = Set::combine(
$product['ProductVariant'],
'{n}.id',
array(
'{0} | {1} - {2}',
'{n}.sex', '{n}.size', '{n}.price'
)
);
echo $form->select('variant', $options);
?>
hth
grigri
On Nov 19, 10:42 am, luigi7up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello I need help with populating drop down select element.
>
> I have following data in array $product that is available in my view
>
> Array
> (
> [Product] => Array
> (
> [id] => 1
> [product_category_id] => 1
> [user_id] => 26
> [title] => Nije Vuk Ovca
> [folder] => nije_vuk_ovca
> [price] => 85
> [special] => 0
> [published] => 1
> [created] =>
> [modified] => 2008-11-07 11:56:06
> )
>
> [ProductVariant] => Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [id] => 1
> [product_id] => 1
> [sex] => male
> [size] => S
> [extras] =>
> [price] =>
> )
>
> [1] => Array
> (
> [id] => 2
> [product_id] => 1
> [sex] => male
> [size] => M
> [extras] =>
> [price] =>
> )
>
> [2] => Array
> (
> [id] => 3
> [product_id] => 1
> [sex] => male
> [size] => L
> [extras] =>
> [price] =>
> )
>
> )
>
> ****
> As you can see Product has it's variants because PRODUCT model hasMany
> PRODUCT_VARIANTS.
> In my product view I want drop down menu (SELECT) with all variants of
> product to be populated in following way:
>
> <select name="xxx" action="yyy">
> <option value="product_variant_id">sex | size - price</option>
> </select>
>
> What I was able to do is
> echo $form->select("variant",$product[ProductVariant]);
>
> but this populates dropDown with every table attribut in its own
> <OPTION> field.
>
> I would like something like this:
>
> form->select("variant",$product[ProductVariant][size]);
>
> but with few more attributes (size + sex + price).
>
> Hope I was clear enough what I want to do...
>
> Thank you so much
>
> Luka
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