Hi there ... so let's say I have
Cake habtm Ingredient and Ingredient habmt Cake If I was to prep $data such as [Cake][id] => 1 [Ingredient] => array(1, 2, 3) and did a Cake->save($data) this would delete any existing associating records in the join table between these two models and then associate Ingredients with id 1,2,3 to Cake record with id 1 ... To save on code, I am trying to spit the contents of my form generated posted data array straight to a model, but am not sure how to handle it if the associated model data is empty. (i.e where originally I had Ingredients 1,2,3 associated with Cake id 1, I would just want to feed some data back so that a simple Cake->save($data) would delete the existing associations. I have tried [Cake][id] => 1 [Ingredient] => null and [Cake][id] => 1 [Ingredient] => array() but it just retains the currently stored associations. I know I can catch a lack of associated Ingredients in the controller and manually delete the related records in the join table, but I would like to know if there is an easier (well less code) way of doing this as sugested above? cheers -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
