core. Meanwhile, I'm using my own patched version....
http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/tickets/1155
On Sep 28, 1:16 pm, DragonFlyEye <dragonflyey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, no one seems interested in biting on this, so I'll just go ahead
> and add my own information based on my own research in case someone
> else has the same problem:
>
> Looking at the helper code, it turns out that the array of options is
> stitched together with the array_merge() function:
>
> $actionDefaults = array(
> 'plugin' => $this->plugin,
> 'controller' => $view->viewPath,
> 'action' => $options['action'],
> 0 => $id
> );
> if (!empty($options['action']) && !isset($options['id'])) {
> $options['id'] = $model .
> Inflector::camelize($options['action']) . 'Form';}
>
> $options['action'] = array_merge($actionDefaults, (array)
> $options['url']);
>
> The problem is that, according to the PHP.net website, array_merge()
> does not preserve numeric keys, which means that numerically-keyed
> array indexes will simply be appended to the end of the array, rather
> than overwriting existing values:
>
> <?php
> $arr1 = array('one' => 'one',
> 'two' => 'two',
> 0 => 0,
> 1 => 1);
> $arr2 = array('one' => 'uno',
> 'two' => 'dos',
> 0 => 'cero',
> 1 => 'uno');
>
> $result = array_merge($arr1, $arr2);
> ?>
> Returns:
> Array ( [one] => uno [two] => dos [0] => 0 [1] => 1 [2] => cero [3] =>
> uno )
>
> So the result is that my options array, which has an unindexed
> (therefore numerically indexed) value in it will not work once the
> Helper has inserted its own value. This is a pretty clear bug in the
> code, which sucks because as of this moment, I have no idea what to do
> to fix the issue apart from putting in a bug report. Which I guess I
> shall do now...
>
> On Sep 28, 10:09 am, DragonFlyEye <dragonflyey...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I don't understand this. I'm creating a form which for reasons I
> > won't go into displays on a page with human-friendly URLs. So, I don't
> > want to have to use a URL that includes a numeric ID for the database
> > node I'm working on. I've run into two problems I find exceptionally
> > odd:
>
> > 1. When creating the action for a form using the "action" element of
> > the options array, there is no way to specify that the URL should
> > include the identifier of the node you're working on. It's quite
> > common to have a url like /stuff/display/thisThing and update the
> > values for that node. Why does CakePHP not allow us to specify an
> > action like /display/thisThing?
>
> > 2. Since that doesn't work, I'm using the 'url' element of the options
> > array. Implicitly, if I'm creating my own URL from whole cloth, I
> > certainly already know what I want that URL to be. But the Cake form
> > helper takes it upon itself to prepend the form with ID of the node.
>
> > By way of example: I am creating the form using the following code:
>
> > <?php echo $form->create(null, array('url' => array('controller' =>
> > 'charts',
> > 'action' => 'display',
> > $chart['Chart']['chartid']))); ?>
>
> > On first page load, the output form looks fine:
> > <form id="ChartAdminDisplayForm" method="post" action="/admin/charts/
> > display/BUD" accept-charset="iso-8859-1">
>
> > But after hitting the submit button, I get the following:
> > <form id="ChartAdminDisplayForm" method="post" action="/admin/charts/
> > display/8/BUD" accept-charset="iso-8859-1">
>
> > Can anybody tell me why this happens and if there is a way around it?
>
>
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