Question

In Cakephp I have a model called Category and I have another model called Page. Now I connected the Page with $belongsTo to the Category model.

Now I have a form where I can create a new Page:

<?php echo $this->Form->create('Page', array('action' => 'create')); ?>

<?php echo $this->Form->input('title'); ?>
<?php echo $this->Form->input('text'); ?>

<?php echo $this->Form->end('Create new Page'); ?>

Now I want to add the possibility to select the category in the form. I think the solution is simple but I didn’t found anything helpful so far…

Answer 1

in your form add this code

echo $this->Form->input('category_id');

now go to your Page controller, inside the appropriate action method, you add this code

$categories = $this->Page->Category->find('list');
$this->set(compact('categories'));