Re: Form drop down - how to add a NULL value

On Thu, October 28, 2010 1:05 pm, chris wrote:
> Hi
>
> Fairly new to developing in cakePHP and run into a problem that I
> can't see a simple solution for.
>
> I have a model that has 2 forigen id's. In some cases, I do not want
> to save anything in one of these id fields.
>
> I want to give the user a drop down option which reads something like
> 'None', and that this in turn will set the id field to NULL when it is
> inserted into the database.
>
> How would I go about achieving this using cakePHP and the Form Helper?

in your select

echo $this->Form->input('field_id',array('type'=>'select', 'empty'=>'None'));

>
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