Theres some magic that happens. If you have an ID field (user_id), it
will usually be a select. If you set a variable called $users to the
view, that input field will populate with that data.
You can overwrite that by just placing array('type' => 'text') as the
second argument of the input method.
On May 11, 10:54 am, Alonso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, folks.
> I'm starting with CakePHP and after reviewing this tutorial
> (http://book.cakephp.org/view/1543/Simple-Acl-controlled-Application
> ) and also after having used the "cake bake" command to generate my
> models,
> controllers and views , everything is fine, but when I visit the
> Post's add view (views \ posts
> \ add.php), I find that instead of showing a input text for the
> username, it shows a select with all the usernames.
>
> this is the line in the Post's add view that show the select.
>
> echo $this->Form->input('user_id');
>
> Although I know how to display only the username of the currently
> logged-in user, I don't know how to control the content to show in
> $this->Form->input() because if I use a variable that is not part of
> the "Post" model , it's shown , but as the label for the input.
>
> Have you any idea how to solve this??
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