Changing the View elements

[witu9217]

Hi,

I am new to CakePHP so I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this question but i have tried your plugin and it works great. But I am having an issues while creating forms.

I have created DB tables as products and categories. and the categories works great. But now when i see the add products form i want it such that it has a dropdownlist(select) of all the categories inserted. Right now all i get is a input text.

I have the foreign key for the categories in the products table as well.

So how can i acheive that i.e override the view to generate the select box.

//Wilson

[yusuf]

Make sure your table relationships are correctly set in the Models for dropdowns to work. For more info check

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html

[witu9217]

Hi yusuf,

Thanx for the reply. But i did everything that is said in the documentation but its still not working.

Here is what i did.

class Product extends AppModel{
public $hasOne = array(
'Category' => array(
'className' => 'Category',
'foreignKey' =>'id',
'dependent' => true
)
);
}

class Category extends AppModel{
//put your code here
}

I created two models where by product has foreign key for the categories. But still it is populating as a textbox not a selectbox with categories filled into it.

Am i missing somethng?

Please Help !

//Wilson