Question

I want to use a form variable inside a cakephp model class variable $actsAs.Below is an example code.

public $actsAs = array('MeioUpload' => array('doc' => array('allowedMime' => array('application/x-compressed','application/x-zip-compressed','application/zip','multipart/x-zip'),'dir'=>'uploads'.DS.$this->data['User']['foldername'])));

In the above code i have used a form variable ($this->data['User']['foldername']) in the $actsAs array for passing directory name to meioupload behaviour.

What can be the write process to implement it.

Answer 1

That definition is wrong.

You can set that data from the constructor though.

public function __construct($data) {
    $this->actsAs = array('MeioUpload' => array('doc' => array('allowedMime' => array('application/x-compressed', 'application/x-zip-compressed', 'application/zip', 'multipart/x-zip'), 'dir' => 'uploads' . DS . $data['User']['foldername'])));
}

Something like that would do the trick.