Ordinarily, you'd use the model's $displayField var. But, since you
want a combination of 2 fields, you'll need to do a little more work.
Have a look at the AutoFieldBehavior [1] or Set class.

[1] http://bin.cakephp.org/saved/30870

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Can someone point me in the correct direction.
>
> I have 2 tables in my db, one called books and the other authors. In
> the authors table, I have a firstName and lastName field
>
> What I want to be able to do is when I add a new book, it belongs to
> an author, I want to show in the drop down selection list lastName,
> firstName.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this with the $belongsTo and $hasMany
> variables??
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Don
>
> >
>

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