Question

I am writing an installer, and as such I need to save multiple types of data in different tables, even when not associated. Ideally I woud like to take care of this all at once. Here is a brief of what I have so far.

Here is my cake array in preparation for saving said data.

$initialData = array(
    array( 'Option' => array( 'name' => 'version', 'value' => '1.0.0', )),
    array( 'Option' => array( 'name' => 'non-version', 'value' => '1.0.2', )),
    array( 'User' => array( 'username' => 'skyler', 'password' => 'hi', )),
);

And I use the following to try and save it.

$this->Option->saveMany($initialData)

Which only saves the Option rows, not the User rows. Thoughts?

NOTE: This is NOT associated data. Options and Users are not associated, but need to be saved at the same time.

Answer 1

The $this->Option->saveMany will work because you are saving multiple records for a single table. However, because the User is not associated to the Option, it does not know what to do with the data. You will need to call $this->User->save($initialData).

If you expect to have multiple user records, you can call $this->User->saveMany($initialData).

Be sure not to forget to call $this->User->create().