See http://book.cakephp.org/view/199/options-selected. In the view, you will need to do something like this:
$form->input('fieldname', array('options' => array($listvalue), 'selected' => 'desiredselectvalue') ); On May 4, 3:56 pm, qwanta <rgmic...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the controller I do a find('list') to get an array ready for > populating a select box. I am quite stumped as to how I would set the > selected index of the select box in the view. > This is a case where the automagic situation (editing a record) is not > applicable - it is a log entry form and a new record each time. > > thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---