Question

I thought the form helper did this already, but can the fields in my form automatically be populated with values from the model or do I have to set them all as template variables and set them all as the value of each field manually?

The form is for a user profile, so I just want it to put the user’s names, email, etc in the correct form fields automatically.

Answer 1

for example: in controller $this->data = $this->Model->find('first',array(...));

in view:

$this->Form->create('Model');
 $this->Form->input('field1');
...
$this->Form->end('Save');