Question

So far, I don’t think this is possible as I’ve been on it for 3.5 hours now. No luck.

I have a form.

I have a select field (with select options of course) which I want to display associated data next to the select items.

For example:

On my Add Plan form, I have a select box titled Plan Details. Plan Detail (model) has a Plan Detail Note (model) (PlanDetailNote belongs to PlanDetail) which is associated. In other words, each Plan Detail has a Note about it in the plan_detail_notes table.

I want to know if it is humanly possible with cakephp to display it like so:

Select Plan Detail:
[Plan Detail Option 1] – [Plan Detail Note]
[Plan Detail Option 2] – [Plan Detail Note]
[Plan Detail Option 3] – [Plan Detail Note]
[Plan Detail Option 4] – [Plan Detail Note]

As you can see the, the note is appended to the normal select option BUT is just static for viewing only – does not need to be saved.

Is this possible with CakePHP?

Answer 1

just another thought, if what you actually want is

<select>
  <option value="1">[Plan Detail Option 1] - [Plan Detail Note]</option>  
  <option value="2">[Plan Detail Option 2] - [Plan Detail Note]</option>
  ...
  <option value="N">[Plan Detail Option N] - [Plan Detail Note]</option>
</select>

Then you could manually create the list using the getAll query (assuming the relationships are properly created)

[ in the controller ]

$plans_list = array();
$plans = $this->Plan->findAll();
foreach($plans as $row) {
    $plans_list["{$row['Plan']['id']}"] = "{$row['Plan']['name']} - {$row['PlanDetail']['note']}";
  }
$this->set('plans_list', $plans_list);

[ and then in the view ]

<?php echo $form->select('Plan.id', $plans_list); ?>