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Domas
Domas

Reputation: 1133

Creating a list out of input fields in cakePHP

I have a form for creating a task, and when creating it, user is asked to select which employees will be assigned to it. There may be just one employee or even up to 10. I allow user to dynamically create those input fields on the go, but the array that i get after the form submition looks like this:

array(
    'Event' => array(
        'project_id' => '62',
        'user_id' => '23',
        'user_id2' => '24',
        'user_id4' => '28',
        'user_id8' => '30',
        'hours' => '6',
        'minutes' => '0',
        'assignment' => '',
        'material' => 'safsaf',
        'date' => '2013-10-12',
    )
)

The problem is I do not know how to iterate over the user_ids. Is it possible to save the IDs as a list? Or is there any other solution?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (1)

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 29121

Use CakePHP's find('list') to retrieve the $users in an key=>value array, then set the multiple attribute of the input to true:

echo $this->Form->select('Model.field', $users, array('multiple' => true));

$attributes['multiple'] If ‘multiple’ has been set to true for an input that outputs a select, the select will allow multiple selections:

Upvotes: 1

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