Re: $form->dateTime() field name breaks with 4 or more levels

Found the solution. Documenting it here in case anyone else stumbles
into this issue:

You need to use an alternative format to specify the model/field
names:

<? echo $form->dateTime("[a][b][c][d]") ?>

Thanks to the person on IRC who hinted at this solution :-)

On Jan 24, 4:17 pm, RichardAtHome <richardath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hate to do this, but... Bump!
>
> Is this a bug in CakePHP (I'd be surprised if it was as I can't fault
> the rest of CakePHP's code) or expected behaviour?
>
> On Jan 23, 3:39 pm, RichardAtHome <richardath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
>
> > I've hit a snag I'm hoping someone can help with. Perhaps one of the
> > devs can explain this behaviour?
>
> > <? echo $form->dateTime("a.b.c") ?>
>
> > generates (as expected):
>
> > <select name="data[a][b][c][day]" id="abCDay">...
>
> > whereas:
>
> > <? echo $form->dateTime("a.b.c.d") ?>
>
> > generates:
>
> > <select name="data[a]" id="a">...
>
> > and
>
> > <? echo $form->dateTime("a.b.c.d.e") ?>
>
> > generates
>
> > <select name="data[]" id="">...
>
> > Unfortunately, I'm building a dynamic search form and my code needs 4
> > levels:
>
> > $form->dateTime("{$model}.nextIndex.{$field_id}.value", "DMY", "NONE")
>
> > (nextIndex is replaced with a number at runtime)
>
> > I've just tried this with a basic text field <?echo $form->text
> > ("a.b.c.d.e) ?> and got the same results as above.
>
> > What do I do?
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