Re: cakePhp - create drop down list with belongsTo association relationships

For example's sake, lets say that you have User and then UserType, user types consists of the following records:

Admin, Editor, Contributor, User

You want to have a drop down list with all the user types, so when creating a new user you can select which type it should be (in this example), you would do something like this.

Controller (basic):

$this->set('userTypes', $this->User->UserType->find('list'));

View (form):

echo $this->Form->input('User.user_type_id', array('options' => $userTypes));

If you name your field and variable correctly, CakePHP should automatically pick up that $userTypes holds the options for the 'User.user_type_id' field.

Here is more on it: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/form.html#options-for-select-checkbox-and-radio-inputs

On 6 July 2014 08:07, Tze Pin <tpin0245@gmail.com> wrote:

May i get some examples on create a drop down list with belongsTo relationship? the option that will be show in the drop down list should be retrieve from database table. I hardly can't find any examples on this in the internet. please help. 

thanks in advance.

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