If it's showing the correct values when viewing but not when saving, then the form might be submitting to /employees/edit and not to / employees/edit/:id as you're presuming.
1. Does it work if you remove the line ($this->Employee->id = $id)? 2. Replace pr() with debug(). What is the output in each case? 3. How is your Employee model set up? On Aug 12, 8:03 am, tron <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a problem with one specific controller trying to INSERT instead > of UPDATE and I am getting duplicate entry errors. the "$this->data" > variable contains the correct primary key of table I'm trying to > update, but still tries to INSERT instead. Most notable text message > is this in the debug dump: SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `employees` > AS `Employee` WHERE `Employee`.`id` IS NULL. Apparently its not > getting the id at all? > > Code: > > function edit( $id = null ) > { > pr( $id ); > pr( $this->data ); > $this->Employee->id = $id; > > if( !empty( $this->data ) ) > { > if( $this->Employee->save( $this->data ) ) > { > } > > } else { > $this->data = $this->Employee->read( null, $id ); > } > } > > Both the pr functions display the correct data that suggests it should > be doing an UPDATE instead of INSERT. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
