Re: retrieve id of 'belongsTo' relationship

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, rethab <rethab.ch@gmail.com> wrote:
> heyhey
>
> I'm facing a very easy-looking problem, but I can't solve it.
>
> In my application, a course has numerous meetings. So, I have the Meeting
> (in the Meeting Controller) and try to get the ID of the belonging Course,
> but the following returns NULL.
>
> $this->Meeting->read();
> $CourseID = $this->Meeting->Course->id;
>
> In the meantime, I changed it to
> $CourseID = $this->Meeting->field('course_id')

Use $this->Meeting->data['Course']['id'] instead.

> That works, but I'm very curious about, what's wrong with the other one.

Not sure. It does seem odd that Cake doesn't set it automatically, but
the information is available in $data so it's not too big a deal.

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