I started a project with a bunch of preliminary scaffolded views and those were find for helping us through data structures and relationships. They also all included some nice defaults -- would show "name" by default for a foreign key "id" in index and "view" views. But it was clear I had to move on from many of the scaffolded views to be able to customize.
I have started to work with non-scaffolded, baked views and how I can customize enogh starting with baked MVC. Not surprisingly, I see some differences. For example, view and index views simply show (not very meaningful) "id" for foreign keys, where I would like to display "name". In the view.ctp I can take something like: echo $testRecord['TestRecord']['space_id']; and change it to: echo $testRecord['Space']['name']; but I foresee myself doing this all over the place. Is there a more systematic way of doing this in a helper or something. I was thinking that "displayField" would be the answer and that baked views would default to "name" and/or "title" by default, but it doesn't seem to be working that way. Thanks! Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
