Hi Brian, Pretty obvious, should have thought of that! -Thanks for the tip!
On Apr 22, 9:35 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Just do your find('list') for the select options outside of any if/else block: > > public function action() > { > if (!empty($this->data)) > { > if ($this->Whatever->save($this->data)) > { > // redirect > } > else > { > // flash msg, no redirect > } > } > $this->set( > 'foods', > $this->Food->find('list', array(...)) > ); > > } > > This way, the only time you're not fetching the options is when you've > redirected after a successful save. > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM, _Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Cake Community! > > > I was wondering if there is a standard approach to maintaining drop > > down menus within a view when the submitted data does not pass > > validation (in the model.) > > > For example, I have a dropdown menu of foods and other fields within a > > view. > > When submitted, the data does not pass validation, and an error > > message is displayed in the view. > > > Instead of showing the drop down menu, all that is displayed is the id > > of the selected food. > > > Does anyone have a good way of maintaining this drop down data in an > > error condition when validating from the model ? > > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
