Question

I’m trying to allow an admin to edit “restaurants” – one of the things they need to be able to change is the city where the restaurant is located. So – I’m trying to pass the list of cities in my “cities” table to my /restaurants/admin_edit.ctp via the restaurants_controller.php

function admin_edit($id = null) {
    $this->set('cities', $this->Restaurant->City->find(
        'list', array('order' => 'City.name', 'fields' => 'City.id, City.name')));

        ...etc

I hope / assume this is a stupid issue and something I’m just doing wrong since I’m new to CakePHP, but after an hour and a half searching, I cannot find an explanation of how I can get the list of cities from the restaurants_controller.php

I have set up my hasOne in the restaurant.php model, and my belongsToMany in my city.php model (not sure if that matters).

Answer 1

So – the issue was, my associations were off. I missunderstood the associations, but after reading this incredibly helpful article, I rewrote my associations (hasMany, belongsTo…etc), and voila – the “find” worked perfectly.

I also found a few places that said I could use a $uses variable, but I found a few other places that dismissed that immediately, and said to just use correct associations.