Question

Sorry if this question is too vague, but I’d rather not muddy it’s point with my assumptions as to what may or may not actually be relevant background information.

If I create an association such as Employee belongsTo Company

When I create a view for Employee and want to display their Company name how can I simply display the company name by…

<?php echo $employee['Employee']['Company']['company_name'] ?>

or simply a custom property (if such a thing exist) such as…

<?php echo $employee['Employee']['CompanyName'] ?>

This, of course, assumes the use of…

$this->set('employee',$someEmployeeRetreivalLogicHere)

…in the Controller

Answer 1

It should be accessible with:

<?php echo $employee['Company']['company_name'] ?>

If that doesn’t work, use debug($employee); to see the array’s structure.