Comments on: Multi-record Forms

By: mihai

mihai — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:19:31 +0000

Thanks! I looked for hours for a way to fix this. Big and complex form with an array of smaller forms at the bottom (with some javascript for adding and removing items). Now it works fine

By: Guillermo Mansilla

Guillermo Mansilla — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:15:15 +0000

Why not just to use Model::saveAll( )?

By: Scuba Steve

Scuba Steve — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Cheers for the code. Exactly what I needed. Working perfectly now…

By: dfg

dfg — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:35:46 +0000

Man,

why is this not working….

are you supposed to have a button?
or maybe tables even……

help out the noobs here bro. you DID tag it as a noob tutorial

By: Catalin

Catalin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:43:27 +0000

Hey there Geoff

I did this a different way, but i reached your article looking for something else:a way to use transactions when doing this. If you do the inserts in a for loop, and one insert raises an error, or something stops the script from running, won’t there be inconsistent data?

With multi-record fields i think we should always try to use transactions… but HOW? Especially in PHP4 which doesn’t accept try/except instructions…

This may not be a question 100% in the direction of the theme here discusses, but it’s my big question of the moment

Thanks

Cata

By: Tamerlan

Tamerlan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:53 +0000

Hi!
im a newbie at cakephp, can you explain a which models you use?
look like you have a 3 tables? im right?
sorry for my english, its not my native language.

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By: David Boyer

David Boyer — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:21:14 +0000

Great article, certainly pointed me in the right direction with things

I also ran into the problem of validation errors not being displayed. Went digging and found that someone has already submitted a patch, which works pretty well. It’s a small edit of the helper.php file to include the modelId

https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/4076

When patched, errors get displayed.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:08:16 +0000

Prond,

I have not had much to do with ClassRegistry, but that is a relly neat feature and is cleaner and more elegant than my solution.

I assuming that when using dynamic ajax forms you would have to update the form submission url so that the count is correct.

Thanks for the tip and I’ll try it out sometime soon.

Geoff

By: prond

prond — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:03:13 +0000

I think it all can be done much simpler (== less work):

controllers/pages_controller.php :
function addMany($count = 2) {
for ($i=1;$i<=$count;$i++) {
$modelName = “Page{$i}”;
$this->{$modelName} = & new Page;
$this->{$modelName}->useTable = “page”;
$this->{$modelName}->name = $modelName;
ClassRegistry::addObject(“Page{$i}”,$this->{$modelName});
}

if (!empty($this->data)) {
for ($i=1;$i<=$count;$i++) {
$modelName = “Page{$i}”;
$this->{$modelName}->create($this->data);
$this->{$modelName}->save();
}
}

$languages = $this->Page->Language->generateList();

$this->set(‘count’,$count);
$this->set(compact(‘languages’));
}

views/pages/add_many.php :

input(“Page{$i}.language_id”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.name”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.urn”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.description”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.keywords”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.published_from”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.published_to”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.published”);
echo $form->input(“Page{$i}.contents”);
?>

end(‘Submit’);?>

link(__(‘List’, true).’ ‘.__(‘Pages’, true), array(‘action’=>’index’));?>
link(__(‘List’, true).’ ‘.__(‘Languages’, true), array(‘controller’=> ‘languages’, ‘action’=>’index’)); ?>
link(__(‘New’, true).’ ‘.__(‘Language’, true), array(‘controller’=> ‘languages’, ‘action’=>’add’)); ?>