RE: form, url, and id

What about 'action' => $this->here if it's the same url?

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From: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:cake-php@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of euromark
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 5:49 PM
To: CakePHP
Subject: Re: form, url, and id

you probably just want to post to the same url, right?

use 'url'=>'/'.$this->params['url']['url']
and you are fine!

PS: yes, i opened a ticket for this misbehavior in the current code
and it is now closed in future versions
2.0 etc
http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/tickets/1418-form-should-alw
ays-post-to-itself-as-default

On 31 Mrz., 06:25, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using 1.3.7
>
> I'm having some trouble with routes again. Specifically, routes and
FormHelper.
>
> Router::connect(
>         '/admin/galleries/:gallery_id/edit_image/:image_id',
>         array(
>                 'admin' => 1,
>                 'controller' => 'galleries',
>                 'action' => 'edit_image'
>         ),
>         array(
>                 'gallery_id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'image_id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'pass' => array('gallery_id', 'image_id')
>         )
> );
>
> echo $this->Html->link(
>         'edit',
>         array(
>                 'admin' => 1,
>                 'controller' => 'galleries',
>                 'action' => 'edit_image',
>                 'gallery_id' => $data['Gallery']['id'],
>                 'image_id' => $image['id']
>         ),
>         array('title' => 'edit this image')
> );
>
> This works peachy. The problem is with the edit form (Gallery.id = 1,
> Image.id =42):
>
> echo $this->Form->create(
>         'Image',
>         array(
>                 'url' => array(
>                         'admin' => 1,
>                         'controller' => 'galleries',
>                         'action' => 'edit_image',
>                         'gallery_id' => $this->data['Gallery']['id'],
>                         'image_id' => $this->data['Image']['id']
>                 ),
>                 'type' => 'file'
>         )
> );
>
> Result:
> /admin/galleries/edit_image/42/gallery_id:1/image_id:42
>
> Similarly:
>
> Router::connect(
>         '/admin/galleries/:gallery_id/delete_image/:image_id',
>         array(
>                 'admin' => 1,
>                 'controller' => 'galleries',
>                 'action' => 'delete_image'
>         ),
>         array(
>                 'gallery_id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'image_id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'pass' => array('gallery_id', 'image_id')
>         )
> );
>
> echo $form->create(
>         'Gallery',
>         array(
>                 'url' => array(
>                         'admin' => 1,
>                         'controller' => 'galleries',
>                         'action' => 'delete_image',
>                         'gallery_id' => $this->data['Gallery']['id'],
>                         'image_id' => $this->data['Image']['id']
>                 )
>         )
> );
>
> Result:
> /admin/galleries/delete_image/1/gallery_id:1/image_id:42
>
> OK -- now try ...
>
> Router::connect(
>         '/admin/galleries/:id/delete_image/:image_id',
>         array(
>                 'admin' => 1,
>                 'controller' => 'galleries',
>                 'action' => 'delete_image'
>         ),
>         array(
>                 'id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'image_id' => '[0-9]+',
>                 'pass' => array('id', 'image_id')
>         )
> );
>
> echo $form->create(
>         'Gallery',
>         array(
>                 'url' => array(
>                         'admin' => 1,
>                         'controller' => 'galleries',
>                         'action' => 'delete_image',
>                         'image_id' => $this->data['Image']['id']
>                 )
>         )
> );
>
> Result:
> /admin/galleries/delete_image/1/image_id:42
>
> alright ...
>
> echo $form->create(
>         'Gallery',
>         array(
>                 'url' => array(
>                         'admin' => 1,
>                         'controller' => 'galleries',
>                         'action' => 'delete_image',
>                         'id' => $gallery_id,
>                         'image_id' => $this->data['Image']['id']
>                 )
>         )
> );
>
> Result:
> /admin/galleries/delete_image/1/id:1/image_id:42
>
> This game is rigged!
>
> As I understand it, if $this->data[ModelUsedForForm]['id'] is set, it
> gets shoved into the URL *even if the URL is being explicitly
> specified*. Mark Story's comment to this ticket [1] suggests that this
> was fixed in 1.3. Anyone know the scoop on this?
>
> FWIW, I'm not editing/deleting the image in ImagesController because I
> have 5 models which can be associated with Image and they all have
> different requirements. However, I may now rethink this strategy and
> put up with lots of switch()es in ImagesController.
>
>
[1]http://cakephp.lighthouseapp.com/projects/42648/tickets/249-form-crea...

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