Question

I am creating a website in CakePHP and I am kind of new on it. I couldn’t find good resources on this matter, so there you go:

I have a three table structure for registering users: Users, Addresses and Contacts. I have to build a view with info of all three tables like:

 Full Name:         [          ] (from Users) Shipping Address:  [          ] (from Address) Mobile Phone:      [          ] (from Contact) e-Mail Address:    [          ] (from Contact) 

What is the best way to deal with this situation. Specially for saving. Creating a new Model to represent this, that will have a save() method itself (Maybe a sql view in the database) Create a Controller to deal with this View that binds or unbinds info

I wonder still how I will handle both contacts as they will be 2 different INSERT‘s

Any hint or resources I can dig of I will be glad.

Answer 1

If your using the latest 1.2 code, check out Model::saveAll in the api

eg. Your view might look something like this:

echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'add'); echo $form->input('User.name'); echo $form->input('Address.line_1'); echo $form->input('Contact.tel'); echo $form->end('Save'); 

Then in your Users controller add method you’d have something like:

...  if($this->User->saveAll($this->data)) {  $this->Session->setFlash('Save Successful');  $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index')); } else {  $this->Session->setFlash('Please review the form for errors'); }  ... 

In your User model you will need something like:

var $hasOne = array('Address', 'Contact'); 

Hope that helps!

http://api.cakephp.org/class_model.html#49f295217028004b5a723caf086a86b1