Re: Brain sprain

Actually, I just realised that you could call $this->setAction('view',
$user_id) instead of redirecting.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Steven Wright <rhythmicdevil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well the only issue is that the client wants all the data and the add device
> on the same view. There will possible be more mini forms as well. I would
> prefer to break it up into logical chunks but its not my call.
>
> Would AJAX get me out of this? If I only have to update a region of the page
> its different than a redirect.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-php@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of brian
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:17 PM
> To: cake-php@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Brain sprain
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM, RhythmicDevil <rhythmicdevil@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am having a brain sprain. I have a controller Subscribers that has
>> two actions 'view' and 'add_device'. View is called from the index
>> page with a Subscriber ID and then shows all the Subscriber's details.
>> In the 'view' view there is a form to add a device. This form's action
>> points at 'subscribers/add_device' and passes the subscriber_id and
>> the device_id.
>>
>> If the device_id is empty I want to send the user back to the 'view'
>> view (I have to change that name) populated with the Subscriber's
>> data. For some reason I cant figure out how to do that in a simple
>> way. Because each call to a view is separate request the data does not
>> persist. Would someone be so kind as to point out the obvious to me?
>
> Usually, the way this sort of thing is handled is to put the form in the
> "add" view. This way, if the save fails, Cake can simply re-display the
> form. If it succeeds, a redirect occurs.
>
> Would it be possible to put a regular link in the "view" view that pointed
> to controller::add_device()? You could append the subscriber_id to the URL.
> Or, you could use a hidden field in a form with a GET method.
>
> So, things would look something lie this:
>
> request:
> /subscribers/view/:id
>
> display:
> the subscriber's info, plus link/form to add device
>
> request:
> /subscribers/add_device/:id
>
> display:
> the form
>
> If the POST fails, you simply don't redirect and Cake will re-display the
> same form, though with an error msg if you've set that up.
>
>
>
> >
>

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