The form needs to be created with a name and then it also needs to
end:
$form->create('FormName');
$form->input( ... etc etc );
$form->end('Submit');
And you should be able to access your form data via $this-
>data['FormName'][ inputfield ].
On Jul 8, 1:31 pm, Tomfox Wiranata <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am trying to extract data from a form to update user information.
> but somehow i cant extract the information from the form. i echo the
> current information in input fields. everything works fine. the
> echoing, the calling of my "updateProfile" function from my view:
>
> <span class="profiledata"><?php echo $form->input('created',
> array('value' => $user['created'])); ?></span>
>
> <?php echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'updateProfile'));?
>
> <div class="button"> <?php echo $form->button('Sichern', array('type'
> => 'submit'));?> </div>
>
> my function that updates the given info
>
> function updateProfile()
> {
>
> $updates =
> $this->User->findByUsername($this->Session->read('User.username'));
>
> WORKS -> $updates['User']['firstname']=
> 'Trötde';
> WORKS ->
> $updates['User']['lastname']='tröter';
> sends NULL ->
> //$updates['User']['username']=$this->data['User']
> ['username'];
> sends NULL ->
> $updates['User']['created']=$this->data['User']
> ['created'];
>
> if ( $this->User->save($updates)){
> $this->Session->setFlash('Profil
> aktualisiert');
> $this->redirect(array('controller' =>
> 'users', 'action' =>
> 'profile'));
> }
> else{
> $this->Session->setFlash('Speichern
> fehlgeschlagen');
> $this->redirect(array('controller' =>
> 'users', 'action' =>
> 'editprofile'));
> }
>
> }
>
> now if i set values as string, like "trötde" above, it works. so the
> saving process is correct. but if i wanna get the data from the form
> with "$this->data['User']['created']" the value is null..
>
> can u see the problem ?? thx :)
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