Awesome I am going to try that now. I was also thinking since its essentially the same view it should also be the same action. I could just write a switch in the action that reads a hidden field in the form and then process accordingly. Not very pretty but it should work.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brian Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Brain sprain Actually, I just realised that you could call $this->setAction('view', $user_id) instead of redirecting. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Steven Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well the only issue is that the client wants all the data and the add > device on the same view. There will possible be more mini forms as > well. I would prefer to break it up into logical chunks but its not my call. > > Would AJAX get me out of this? If I only have to update a region of > the page its different than a redirect. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of brian > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Brain sprain > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM, RhythmicDevil > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I am having a brain sprain. I have a controller Subscribers that has >> two actions 'view' and 'add_device'. View is called from the index >> page with a Subscriber ID and then shows all the Subscriber's details. >> In the 'view' view there is a form to add a device. This form's >> action points at 'subscribers/add_device' and passes the >> subscriber_id and the device_id. >> >> If the device_id is empty I want to send the user back to the 'view' >> view (I have to change that name) populated with the Subscriber's >> data. For some reason I cant figure out how to do that in a simple >> way. Because each call to a view is separate request the data does >> not persist. Would someone be so kind as to point out the obvious to me? > > Usually, the way this sort of thing is handled is to put the form in > the "add" view. This way, if the save fails, Cake can simply > re-display the form. If it succeeds, a redirect occurs. > > Would it be possible to put a regular link in the "view" view that > pointed to controller::add_device()? You could append the subscriber_id to the URL. > Or, you could use a hidden field in a form with a GET method. > > So, things would look something lie this: > > request: > /subscribers/view/:id > > display: > the subscriber's info, plus link/form to add device > > request: > /subscribers/add_device/:id > > display: > the form > > If the POST fails, you simply don't redirect and Cake will re-display > the same form, though with an error msg if you've set that up. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
