Hi, Thanks a lot for your help.
It's working fine now. Regards Diptanjan On Sep 16, 11:22 pm, d <[email protected]> wrote: > Short answer: yes. > > Create a LocationType model > Location belongsTo LocationType > > In your location controller, do something like: > $types = $this->Location->LocationTypes->find('list') > > and set the $types variable for the view: > $this->set(compact('types')); > > In the view, you can then do: > echo $form->input('Location.type_id',array('type' => 'select', > 'options' => $types)); > > On Sep 16, 12:00 am,Diptanjan<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I am new to Cake. It's been only few days I am trying to learn Cake > > for my new project purpose. > > > I need to build a Location page which will contain the following form > > fields: > > > location name > > location type > > location description > > location description > > > So far I am able to List, Add, Edit and Delete the locations added > > (till now I was using text boxes for all). > > > Now I need to display dropdown for location type which is populated > > from DB (table name is : listing lookup), from where the admin can > > select the location type instead of typing it. > > > 1. Do I need to create a seperate controller and model file to do > > this? > > 2. Even if I do that how can I fetch the data in my View? > > > I tried to search the net but unable to find something that can help > > me (might be as I am begeinner in CAKE I am unable to use what I found > > so far :) ) > > > Can anyone help me with this ? > > > Thanks in Advance > > >Diptanjan- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
