Question

I wanted to now if there is a way to pass a simple string inside url and cakephp some how put it inside one of the inputs of my form without any code writing on view side?
I tried calling this->set(“bla”,”bla”); the field name is bla
but nothing changed in view

Answer 1

As I understood the question you want to have something like this:

in the url you have something like:

http://yourserver.com/controller/action?search=string

and you want to put this “string” in the search field, right?

Then let’s imagine that your field’s name is data[search_field]. (I am skipping the model, because for my example it’s not needed, but it’s possible the name to be data[Model][search_field]).

Then in your controller’s action you have to do following:

$this->data['search_string'] = $this->params['url']['search'];