Question

I have a Table column named active which may have a value 1 or 0

in my add.ctp I am creating a checkbox using

<?php echo $this->Form->checkbox('active'); ?>

and similarly in my edit.ctp template

but regardless of if the checkbox is checked or unchecked the value saved in Database is always 1 and i also don’t know in the active=1 how to set it to checked

Answer 1

Assuming the database column is a BOOLEAN type. You should create the checkbox like this instead:

<?php echo $this->Form->input('active'); ?>

It should automatically output it as a checkbox..

If it doesn’t, try clearing the model cache in tmp/cache/models and trying again