Re: select box link and jump to selected category

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Chris <chris69m@yahoo.com> wrote:

hi cricket,... 

this is what I got so far: 

it's kind of works,... but then again not completely,.... I'm loosing categories value: 

No, you're not losing the values; you want something other than the defaults, but haven't taken the right steps to achieve that.

 

<?php echo $this->Form->create('', array('id'=>'FormId')); ?>

<?php echo $this->Form->input("categories" , array('label' => false, 'type' => 'select', 'value'=>$categories, 'options'=>$categories)) ?>

echo $this->Form->select('categories', $categories, array('options' => false));

 

this is output: 

where it should be  value=arts  value=autos  etc...

You need to tell Cake that you want something other than the default id & name when you do a find('list').

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/retrieving-your-data.html#find-list

Presumably, you have a slug column. Don't use the Category.name as the option values because they may contain URL-unfriendly characters. Use SluggableBehavior. There seem to be several floating around the internet. Here's a recent one:

https://github.com/pronique/CakePHP-Sluggable-Behavior

 

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