i'm REALLY sorry for the delay getting back to you. And unfortunately, i'm still not there. It's CLOSE though:
i did exactly as you suggested in your last post. Set up my Entities & Tables just as you described. Set up the controller to manually set the _joinData "dirty" and called the save.
i get the ListingsAttributes record now! But no value from the text input (_joinData.value).
The POST data is correct:
Array
(
[attributes] => Array
(
[3] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[_joinData] => Array
(
[value] => Off-street
)
)
)
)
That's exactly what i've been getting since i change to use _joinData...
Here's the Entity after merging & setting _joinData dirty:
Array
(
[attributes] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 1
)
)
)
As before, the "value" input got lost. However, there is FINALLY an Attributes array in the Listing entity with the correct Attributes.id. The result is, i get a ListingsAttributes record with the Listings.id and Attributes.id, but nothing in the
value column.
This is making me crazy & i'm on the edge of scrapping this thing & starting over with something else. i never expected this much difficulty getting some basic data relationships to work after following documentation exactly (and then having to make
undocumented changes that still only get me part-way there. i don't think i'm doing anything radical or unconventional with my form, so i don't understand the difficulty of making the ORM function as advertised.
i'm frustrated, obviously. It's taken me this long to come back to follow up because it becomes harder & harder to come back & try again. i'm almost there, i just don't know why the
value input won't go into the Entity data with everything else.
If you're moving on, i totally understand. But if you'd like to look at the code directly, let me know. i'll have to put a version online without sensitive info in it...
Thanks for at least getting me this far. :)
-joe
On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 04:57:35 UTC-5, heavyKevy wrote:
Joe,
Here is what I did:
In the attribute entity:
protected $_accessible = [
'id' => true,
'name' => true,
'listings' => true,
];
In the Listings_Attributes Table:
public function validationDefault(Validator $validator)
{
$validator
->add('id', 'valid', ['rule' => 'numeric'])
->allowEmpty('id', 'create')
->add('listing_id', 'valid', ['rule' => 'numeric'])
->allowEmpty('listing_id', 'create')
->notEmpty('listing_id')
->add('attribute_id', 'valid', ['rule' => 'numeric'])
->allowEmpty('attribute_id', 'create')
->notEmpty('attribute_id')
->allowEmpty('value');
return $validator;
}
In the Listings Controller: Add method:
public function add()
{
$listing = $this->Listings->newEntity();
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$listing = $this->Listings->patchEntity($listing, $this->request->data,['associated'=>['attributes._joinData']]);
$listing->dirty('attributes._joinData',true);
if ($this->Listings->save($listing)) {
$this->Flash->success('The listing has been saved.');
return $this->redirect(['action' => 'index']);
} else {
$this->Flash->error('The listing could not be saved. Please, try again.');
}
}
$attributes = $this->Listings->Attributes->find('list', ['limit' => 200]);
$this->set(compact('listing', 'attributes'));
$this->set('_serialize', ['listing']);
}
In the Add template of the Listing: add.ctp
<?= $this->Form->create($listing); ?>
<fieldset>
<legend><?= __('Add Listing') ?></legend>
<?php
echo $this->Form->input('name');
//echo $this->Form->input('attributes._ids', ['options' => $attributes]);
if(!empty($attributes)){
$i =0;
foreach( $attributes as $k => $attr){
echo $this->Form->input('attributes.'.$i.'.id',['type'=>'checkbox','value'=>$k,'label'=>$attr]);
echo $this->Form->input('attributes.'.$i.'.name',['type'=>'hidden','value'=>$attr]);
echo $this->Form->input('attributes.'.$i.'._joinData.value');
$i++;
}
}
//echo $this->Form->select('attributes._ids', $attributes,['label'=>'Attributes','multiple' => 'checkbox']);
?>
</fieldset>
<?= $this->Form->button(__('Submit')) ?>
<?= $this->Form->end() ?>
I don't believe I changed anything else.. Just used what was baked, and it works for me.
--Kevin
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