Re: Populating field from session variables

at some point you must save the posted data to the session variable
and set the variable for use in the view template.

once you do that do

echo $form->input('name', $options = array('value' = $data['name']));

in the view template and where $data is a variable that contains the
data from the session that you would set in a controller action

something like that. please check the cakephp docs on how to set
values for input elements and other elements. I am pretty sure you set
an array to $options, but I havent double checked

Hope that helps

On Dec 1, 11:54 pm, nashrul <anas_a...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't think you get my message...
> What I want is, when user is in the edit page... the form in edit page will
> be populated with the values from session variables..So I created the form
> in ediit.ctp file like this :
>
> //app/views/persons/edit.ctp
> <h1>Edit Person</h1>
> <?
>
> <?
>         echo $form->create('Person');
>         echo $form->input('name');
>         echo $form->input('pob');
>         echo $form->input('dob');
>         echo $form->input('address');
>         echo $form->end('Save');
> ?>
>
> Those form fields (name, pob, dob, address) will be automatically populated
> with the values from session variables. Maybe in the standard form field it
> should be like this:
>
> //app/views/persons/edit.ctp
> echo "<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='name' value="$_SESSION['person.name']">";
> echo "<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='name' value="$_SESSION['person.pob']">";
> echo "<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='name' value="$_SESSION['person.dob']">";
> echo "<INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='name' value="$_SESSION['person.address']">";
> How can I do this using form helper ??
>
> Thanks..
>
>
>
> Saliem wrote:
>
> > sorry:
>
> > $this->set('data', $this->Session->read('session_variable_name'));
>
> > On Dec 1, 8:46 pm, Saliem <than.sal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> $this->set('data', $this->data);
>
> >> OR
>
> >> $this->ser('data', $this->Session->read('session_variable_name'));
>
> >> something along these lines
>
> >> On Dec 1, 7:05 pm, nashrul <anas_a...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> > HI, I'm new to cakephp
> >> > I'm trying to populate form fields from the session variables..
> >> > I have a scenario like this.
> >> > 1. User fills the form.
> >> >    When the user clicks next button, form fields are saved to the
> >> session
> >> > variable.
> >> > 2. User is displayed with the data he entered before to confirm.
> >> > 3. If the data is correct, it proceeds to save the data. otherwise, it
> >> will
> >> > display edit page.
> >> >    In edit page, form fields will be populated by the data from the
> >> session
> >> > variables. If the
> >> >    process   finishes, user
> >> >    will go the confirmation page, and repeats step 2.
> >> > 4. when user confirms the data, set method in the model is called and
> >> save
> >> > method is called.
>
> >> > In step 3, how can I populate form fields from the session variables
> >> ?..
> >> > I've read about form and html helpers, and the documentation says that
> >> html
> >> > helper is deprecated.. so I look to form helper.
> >> > In form helper, afaik, there's no way to set form fields from
> >> variables..
> >> > Correct me if I was wrong.or somebody has a better idea to solve my
> >> problem
> >> > ??
> >> > Thanks...
> >> > I use cakephp 1.2
> >> > --
> >> > View this message in
> >> context:http://old.nabble.com/Populating-field-from-session-variables-tp26601...
> >> > Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others
> > with their CakePHP related questions.
>
> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> > "CakePHP" group.
> > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> > cake-php+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group
> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
>
> --
> View this message in context:http://old.nabble.com/Populating-form-fields-from-session-variables-t...
> Sent from the CakePHP mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions.

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group.
To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
cake-php+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en