Re: Form data from a view element

It doesn't matter whether your form comes from an element or a view
file, it's generating the same HTML in the end, so check that first.
If the form/controller doesn't work it's not a problem of the element.

I'd guess that one of your problems is that you want to redirect as
the final action of processing the data, but you're already echoing a
lot of stuff before, so the redirect will fail.

As a side note, you don't need to instantiate Sanitize, you can call
it statically like Sanitize::clean($data);

On 16 Sep 2008, at 22:11, Daniel wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I currently have a "comment box" view element that I plan to
> embed in various places in my CakePHP application to allow users to
> leave comments on various aspects of the site.
>
> I'm using the form helper inside of the element to generate the
> form to be used to submit the data, however when I submit the data I
> receive only a blank screen that says "0 query took ms". I've even
> added debugging echoes to the controller to print the data array and
> I'm still just receiving a blank page with "0 query took ms".
>
> Attached below is the comment "add" method and the respective
> element code.
>
> Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated, I seem
> to be pretty stuck!
>
>
> Controller code:
>
> function add()
> {
> echo "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
> $mrClean = new Sanitize();
>
> echo "Data ". $this->data;
>
> if(!empty($this->data))
> {
> $mrClean->clean($this->data);
>
> $currUser = $this->get_current_user();
> $this->data['Comment']['user_id'] = $currUser['id'];
> $this->data['Comment']['isDeleted'] = 0;
>
> $targetEvent = $this->Event->find("first",
> array('conditions' => array('Event.id' => $this->data['Comment']
> ['event_id']),
> 'recursive' => 1));
>
> print_r($targetEvent);
>
> if(empty($targetEvent) || is_null($targetEvent))
> {
> $this->Comment->invalidate('event_id', 'You have selected an
> invalid event.');
> return;
> }
>
> if($this->Comment->save($this->data))
> {
> $this->flash('Your comment has been added',
> '/events/view/'. $this->data['Comment']['event_id']);
> } else {
> $this->flash('An error has occured adding your comment.', '/
> events');
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> Element code:
>
> <?php echo $form->create('Comment', array('action' => 'add')); ?>
> <table class="commentsTable">
> <tr>
> <td colspan='99' class='commentSubject'>
> Subject: &nbsp;<?php echo $form->input('subject', array( 'label' =>
> false )); ?>
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>&nbsp;</td>
> <td class='commentBody'>
> <?php echo $form->textarea('body',
> array( 'label' => false,
> 'rows' => 7,
> 'cols' => 80 )); ?>
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan='99' class='commentSubmit'>
> <?php echo $form->submit('Post Comment'); ?>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <?php echo $form->hidden('event_id', array('value' => $event_id)); ?>
> <?php echo $form->end(); ?>
>
> >

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