And also, if you have a nonstandard display field that isn't just
being used for this particular select input, then you will probably
want to set the $displayField property in your model so cake can
automagically display that field in find('list') results and in
tables.On Jun 15, 8:46 am, euromark <[email protected]> wrote: > usually you dont pass the dummy field via controller > there is an empty field param for it > > echo $this->Form->input('category_id', array('options'=>$cats, > 'empty=>'dummyName'); > or > echo $this->Form->input('category_id', array('options'=>$cats, > 'empty=>array('dummyFieldValue'=>'dummyName'))); > > On 15 Jun., 17:35, leo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You might also want to do this if you want to specify which fields to > > return: > > $this->set('categories', $this->Item->Category- > > > >find('list',array('fields'=>array('id','other_name')); > > > If you need to add a dummy field, try: > > $categories = array(0=>'unassigned') + > > $this->Item->Category->find('list',array('fields'=>array('id','other_name')); > > > $this->set('categories', $categories); > > > And in the view, if your categories aren't appearing (because the > > naming is different) try: > > echo $this->Form->input('category_id',array('options'=>$cats)); Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
