Question

Okay, so I’m fairly new to CakePHP. This is the setup:

I’ve got a Model (Reservation), and a controller, (ReservationController).

I’m trying to provide a simple add() functionality.

The request url is: http://www.example.com/reservations/add/3

Where 3 is the ID of the event this reservation is for.
So far, so good. The problem is, the form is constructed like this:

 <h2>Add reservation</h2>
<?php echo $form->create('Reservation');
echo $form->input('first_name');
echo $form->input('last_name');
echo $form->input('email');
echo $form->input('tickets_student'); echo $form->input('tickets_nstudent');
echo $form->end('Add');?>

When I hit the send button, the request URL becomes simply http://www.example.com/reservations/add/, and the event id is lost.

I’ve solved it now by grabbing the id in the controller, and make it available to the form:

// make it available for the form
$this->set('event_id', $eventid);

And then, in the form:

$form->create('Reservation',array('url' => array($event_id)));

It works, but it strikes me as a bit ugly. Isn’t there an easier way to make sure the form POST action gets made to the current url, instead of the url without the id?

Answer 1

Nik’s answer will fail if the website isn’t in the server public_html root.

This answer is more solid:

<?php echo $form->create('Reservation',array('url'=>'/reservation/add/'.$data['id']));?>