Question

New to CakePHP, so be gentle…

I’m trying to loop through a table to display all the read-only fields (labels and values).
In my edit function, I get the table

$this->set('invoice', $this->Invoice->read(null, $id));

In my view, I want to loop through the entire table schema and output the field names and values as labels like fieldName: value

Invoice Number: SVC00158
Invoice Date: 03/03/12

There are 37 fields in this table. I would rather not have to manually code for every one. I know to retrieve the input fields like this

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

but I can’t seem to find a ‘read-only’ attribute for the input() method. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You could loop through the schema and output it like that:

// assumes $result contains model data
$schema = $this->Model->schema();
foreach ($schema as $field => $attrs) {
  echo $result['Model'][$field];
}