Question

I am currently trying to allow the users to archive events that have already been completed.

Then the event will be viewed in the Archive Table.

So basically I have one archive table, and one event table, and when the user wants to archive the event, they should be able to view the event in the archive add form (which needs to be populated by the $id of the event).

But I do not know how to populate the field.. I have tried setting a value.. but the events are not sessions so that didn’t work, and I have also tried setting the $id at the start of the form, but that also didn’t work.

Here is the code to my archive function in the events controller.

   public function archive($id = null) {
        if ($this->request->is('post')) {
            $event = $this->Event->read($id);
            $archive['Archive'] = $event['Event'];
            $archive['Archive']['eventID'] = $archive['Archive']['archiveID'];
            unset($archive['Archive']['archiveID']);
            $this->loadModel('Archive');
            $this->Archive->create();
            if ($this->Archive->save($archive)) {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('The event has been archived'));
                $this->Event->delete($id);
                $this->redirect(array('action' => 'eventmanage'));
            } else {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('The event could not be archived. Please, contact the administrator.'));
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

You need to do one of the following:

Set the values for the fields using $this->request->data in the controller.

public function add($id = null) {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        [..snip..]
    }
    $this->loadModel('Event');
    $event = $this->Event->read($id);
    $this->request->data['Archive'] = $event['Event'];
}

OR

Update the form to set the values.

Update the existing code with the same event read:

public function add($id = null) {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        [..snip..]
    }
    $this->loadModel('Event');
    $this->set('event', $this->Event->read($id));
}

Then in your form in the Archives/add.ctp file, update each input to reflect the value of the $event.

echo $this->Form->input('eventID', array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' => $event['Event']['id']));

OR

Write a function that will move the record.

Put a button on the Event View called ‘Archive’. Create a method in the Event Controller that will archive the event.

public function archive($id = null) {
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        $event = $this->Event->read($id);
        $archive['Archive'] = $event['Event'];
        $archive['Archive']['event_id'] = $archive['Archive']['id'];
        unset($archive['Archive']['id']);
        $this->loadModel('Archive');
        $this->Archive->create();
        if ($this->Archive->save($archive)) {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The event has been archived'));
            $this->Event->delete($id);
            $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('The event could not be archived. Please, contact the administrator.'));
        }
    }
}