see this great article in bakery http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/create-multiple-checkboxes-instead-of-a-multiple-select-in-your-views
On Nov 14, 6:28 pm, Langdon Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > My solution to this problem (when using check boxes with HABTM > relationships) is to test the data coming back to the controller. If > there is no array for (in your case) Services, then I would add an empty > array called Services. > > This will force Cake to delete all of the relationships in the join table. > > Regards, > Langdon > > DGPhoebus wrote: > > Using Cake 1.2.0.5875 pre-beta, have two tables.... Islands, Services > > (Concierge Services), and a join table islands_services. Services are > > presented as a list of checkboxes. When an island is updated the post > > data contains this: > > > Array > > ( > > [Island] => Array > > ( > > > ) > > [Service] => Array > > ( > > [Service] => > > ( > > ) > > ) > > ) > > > And obviously inside the arrays is the post data. What I am finding > > is that upon calling $this->Island->save($this->data), if all services > > are "unchecked" (essentially "remove" all services from an island > > definition) the post data now looks like this: > > > Array > > ( > > [Island] => Array > > ( > > > ) > > ) > > > But upon calling $this->Island->save($this->data) the join table is > > not updated (all related rows are not deleted). [Service] must be > > present in the post data for the Model to update the join table. So I > > have hacked it and I test to see if that array exists in the post data > > and if not I add it.... which then causes the join table to be updated > > correctly. Just wondering if this is a bug... cause the alpha release > > didn't work like this.... > > > Thanks all. > > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
