Re: cakephp 3.0 save new entity with new related data

As marshaller accepts existing related data OR new related data, but NOT both I had do like this.

$contact = $this->Contacts->newEntity($this->request->data);
if($this->request->data){
    //debug($this->request->data);
    /*'skills' => [
        '_ids' => [
            (int) 0 => '1',            //found in skills, this is the id
            (int) 1 => '~könyvelő'        //starts with "~" this is a new skill (or fast typer problem)
        ]]
    */
    foreach($this->request->data['skills']['_ids'] as $i => $skill){
        if(mb_substr($skill, 0,1) == '~'){
            $skill = ltrim($skill, '~');
            $contact['skills'][] = $this->Contacts->Skills->newEntity(['name' => $skill]);
        }
    }
}

And now it works like a charm. :)

CakePHP is great :)

2014. december 16., kedd 9:40:22 UTC+1 időpontban José Lorenzo a következőt írta:

_ids only works with sending existing ids, you will need to send data formatted correctly so the marshaller creates entities of the desired type. Similar to what you would do for creating belongsTo or hasMany associations.

On Monday, December 15, 2014 7:13:35 PM UTC+1, Radharadhya Dasa wrote:

Hi,

I want to save a new contact. The contacts has skills (belongsToMany). Skill is a text input and with jquery autocomplete I search for existing skills. If the user select existing skills their id is sent to to controller, if they create new skills the controller gets their names starting with a "~" char.

So my controller gets something like this:

/*debug($this->request->data);
  'name' => 'John Doe',
  'email' => 'j...@nowhere.com',
  'skills' => [
    '_ids' => [
      (int) 0 => '1',            //found in skills, this is the id
      (int) 1 => '~könyvelő'     //starts with "~" this is a new skill (or fast typer problem)
    ]
  ]
*/

If I have no new skill (a skill what starts with "~") I can do the following:

$contact = $this->Contacts->newEntity($this->request->data);
this->Contacts->save($contact);

But if I have new skill I should save it first, get the corresponding id, replace the name with the id and than I could save it. Is it the way? I did not find any way to get the last inserted id.

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