The SQL query is fetching Color.name. You're looking in the Product array. The Color name will be in the Color array.
<?php echo $product['Color']['name']; ?> When in doubt, do a debug($this->data) in your view. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM, justclint <[email protected]> wrote: > > My app is working but a couple of my fields are not pulling the data I > want. > > I have a table called products and another table called colors. My > colors table has 2 fields, id and name. > > When adding the product, you select the color (from drop down menu) > and it will insert the color id into the color_id field of the > products table. > > Once I add a product, instead of displaying the actual color it shows > the colors id. (ie: 2 instead of blue) > > How do I get my page to pull the actual color name not the color id? > > When launching the page it does the following query: > > SELECT `Product`.`id`, `Product`.`name`, `Product`.`category_id`, > `Product`.`material_id`, `Product`.`color_id`, `Product`.`sport_id`, > `Product`.`price`, `Product`.`image_link`, `Product`.`buy_link`, > `Category`.`id`, `Category`.`name`, `Material`.`id`, > `Material`.`name`, `Color`.`id`, `Color`.`name`, `Sport`.`id`, > `Sport`.`name` FROM `products` AS `Product` LEFT JOIN `categories` AS > `Category` ON (`Product`.`category_id` = `Category`.`id`) LEFT JOIN > `materials` AS `Material` ON (`Product`.`material_id` = > `Material`.`id`) LEFT JOIN `colors` AS `Color` ON > (`Product`.`color_id` = `Color`.`id`) LEFT JOIN `sports` AS `Sport` ON > (`Product`.`sport_id` = `Sport`.`id`) WHERE 1 = 1 LIMIT 20 > > I think I need the following part of the query to be changed from: > > `colors` AS `Color` ON (`Product`.`color_id` = `Color`.`id`) > > to > > `colors` AS `Color` ON (`Product`.`color_id` = `Color`.`name`) > > My controller is just the default one after creating through the > console so Products->index looks like: > > function index() { > $this->Product->recursive = 0; > $this->set('products', $this->paginate()); > } > > > My Product model looks like: > > var $belongsTo = array( > 'Color' => array( > 'className' => 'Color', > 'foreignKey' => 'color_id', > 'conditions' => '', > 'fields' => '', > 'order' => '' > ) > ); > > My Color model looks like this: > > var $hasMany = array( > 'Product' => array( > 'className' => 'Product', > 'foreignKey' => 'color_id', > 'dependent' => false, > 'conditions' => '', > 'fields' => '', > 'order' => '', > 'limit' => '', > 'offset' => '', > 'exclusive' => '', > 'finderQuery' => '', > 'counterQuery' => '' > ) > ); > > And Products->index view looks like this: > > <tr<?php echo $class;?>> > <td> > <?php echo $product['Product']['id']; ?> > </td> > <td> > <?php echo $product['Product']['name']; ?> > </td> > > <td> > <?php echo $product['Product']['color_id']; ?> > </td> > > > Your help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
