Question

I’m trying to write a small expenses cake app. Basicaly I have a expenseClaim that hasMany Expenses (expense belongsTo expenseClaim). When you add/edit a expenseClaim I want to be able to add multiple expenses for that expense claim from within that view. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Any tutorials / sample code would be massively appreciated. Thanks in advance

using cake 2.1

Answer 1

Put in expenseClaim/add:

$this->expenseClaim->Expense->create();

It should work if the relationship is well set in the model.

If not,

$this->loadModel('Expense');
 $this->Expense->create();

should always work.

Edit:

$data=array
    (
        [Expense] => Array
        (
            [fieldname1] => 'value'
            [fieldname2] => 'value'
        )
    )



 $this->loadModel('Expense');
 $this->Expense->create();
            if ($this->Expense->save($data)) {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Done.'));

            } else {
                $this->Session->setFlash(__('Failure.'));
            }

Edit2: if you want to pass data from the view:

if ($this->request->is('post')) {
                    $this->loadModel('Expense');

        $this->Expense->create();
        if ($this->Expense->save($this->request->data)) {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('Done.'));

        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash(__('Failure'));
        }
    }

The request is created automatically if you use the form helper in the view.