i notice you didn't use hasMany or hasOne in your family model.
var $hasMany= array(
'Widget' => array(
'className' => 'Widget',
'foreignKey' => 'family_id',
)
);
i assume you have family_id set up as a foreign key in your widget
table. of course your set up may vary.
just to clarify are you trying to save a Family, a widget or both?
On Aug 10, 9:49 pm, azkid <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a model named Widget, and another named Family. Widget
> belongsTo Family, and the table associated with Widget has a foreign
> key in it, called id. This foreign key is non-standard, I know, but
> it is a legacy application with cake spliced in--so I manually set the
> foreign key in the association. Furthermore, the Family table using
> familyid for its primary key (non-standard again). I have a select
> pulldown in the add() view for Widget, where all available Familes are
> displayed. In order to get the select pulldown to display all the
> available families, my controller uses $this->set and find('list') to
> create the appropriate view variables. I've put the applicable code
> snippets athttp://bin.cakephp.org/view/1167953986
>
> The problem is, that when I save, the data from the select field named
> "Family" doesn't save, since the database is expecting something named
> "id", but $this->data contains something named "Family". I had
> assumed that defining the foreign key in my belongsTo association
> would have made this all work correctly, but obviously not. I now do
> not believe that things would work even if the conventions were being
> followed. Instead, I believe that I am making some kind of
> fundamental mis-assumption about how belongsTo associations are
> handled both when rendering a view and at save time. Is there
> something obvious that jumps out here to anyone? Being fairly new to
> cake, I've been scouring the cake google group as well as the cookbook
> for guidance, but am still coming up short.
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