Here's what I am trying to accomplish:
A user fills out a form, saves a record. At some later date they wish to "clone" this record, but may want to make a few tweaks. This "clone" functionality should direct them to a form that is pre-filled with the previous record's data so that they can review it, edit as needed, and submit it as a new record.
What I'm trying:
I've modified my add() function to accept a parameters:
function add($cloneid = NULL)
Then created a Clone link that sends them to siteurl/model/add/id_to_clone
Then, I get the data from that model:
$clone_source = $this->Model->findById($cloneid);
$this->data['Model']['field1'] = $clone_source['Model']['field1'];
and so on. Based on Google searching and other posts, this should work. But what actually happens is that upon clicking the 'Clone' link, the user is directed and the form submits itself immediately (failing to save the record, since it fails validation) and the user never actually sees the form.
What am I doing wrong? (Also I should note, there are relational models present, but I don't think this should be the cause of any problems...I hope).
Forms are pre-populated using the $this->request->data array.
In order for your form to be populated you will need to set some data to the request.
So you'll be better off with the following.
$this->request->data = $this->Model->findById($id);
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Is there an easy way to save a recordset, i mean multiple records, but only the "new ones"?
I have a table users and a users form in the view. First field you must enter is passport number, so if user already exists in database the rest of the form will be auto completed and disabled to prevent changes but if passport dont exist then you have to enter all data. As anyone can change those existing users data controls from the browser even if they are disabled, i want to make sure only new records are saved in database. First of all i thought i could find again in database and delete existing users from recordset before save, but i wonder if there is a more elegant approach.
Ty in advance.
I write this here, cause comments are too short:
Thank you for your answer, André. I'm sorry if i didnt explain perfectly, but the form is done by disabling all controls except passport and if passport dont exist (i check it on passport focusout) then the rest of controls are set to enabled. I mean, that is already done. The question was only about the saving.
The validation method you talk about, well i'm actually validating all the controls in the form and i must disable the 'unique' rule so a user can link an existing user to the current bill, otherwise it will fail validation on submit and it wont allow the user to proceed (i did this because it happened to me when testing). The actual setting is much more complicated: the form belongs to a model (bills) which is associated with 4 other models and 2 of those relationships are many to many, bills_users and bills_clients, where users are the persons who do the job and clients pay for it, but I was trying to make the question easier. Anyway, what I am looking for is, in fact, some kind of saving setting which I can't find. In documentation I found "When converting belongsToMany data, you can disable the new entity creation, by using the onlyIds option. When enabled, this option restricts belongsToMany marshalling to only use the _ids key and ignore all other data." The first half of the sentence was promising, but the explanation says different, and I actually tried it without success.
First:
Is there an easy way to save a recordset, i mean multiple records, but only the "new ones"?
Yes there is you can validate it in model, something like this:
public function buildRules(RulesChecker $rules)
{
$rules->add($rules->isUnique('passportNumber'));
return $rules;
}
This will prevent to save a duplicate passport number register, but you can different.
I have a table users and a users form in the view. First field you must enter is passport number, so if user already exists in database the rest of the form will be auto completed and disabled to prevent changes but if passport dont exist then you have to enter all data.
There is two different ways to do this:
First you have your form, you develop an ajax function when you fill the first field (passport number) this ajax function do a request to your controller to search for a passport with that number if find something get data and fill others fields and turn them just readable, else just nothing and let user fill the fields by himself
second add a step-by-step where you first do a form to try find by pass number, user fill this only field with a number then submit, on submit this search for a record, if find fill the entire next step fields, else the next step will be the rest of form with the fields to be filled.
This may help you too: https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/orm/validation.html
Tell me how you decided to do :)
I have scenario where I have 3 different models data being saved from one form, by means of the saveAll pass through method in CakePHP 2.x
The models on the form are:
Project
ProjectImage
ProjectAttachment
1 and 2 are saving perfectly, but I am having problems with the ProjectAttachment fields. If you look at the following image, the fields in question are at the bottom right, highlighted by a red frame: http://img.skitch.com/20120417-bnarwihc9mqm1b49cjy2bp13cf.jpg
Here is the situation:
I have named the fields as follows: *ProjectAttachment.0.project_id*, ProjectAttachment.0.name .... *ProjectAttachment.6.project_id* etc where the numbers are relative to the already present amount of attachments the user has added, as there is no limit. So if the user has ALREADY added 6 documents, the field would be called ProjectAttachment.7.id and so on. This is because of the naming convention when using the saveAll method.
I have made use of two hidden fields, one to store the user ID, the other to store the project ID.
The problem is that if the user does not fill in the Document Title and select a file to upload, the form fails! If I remove all validation rules, the form no longer fails BUT a blank ProjectAttachment record is inserted.
I suspect the problem may also be that the project_id and user_id fields (that are hidden) already have values in them?
I gave it some thought, and came up with a simple concept: In my controller, before the saveAll call, I would check to see if a blank Document Title field was submitted, and if so, I would completely eliminate the relevant array entry from the $this->request->data['ProjectAttachment'] array, but this did not seem to work.
To clarify, I am not looking for validation rules. If the user decides they only want to upload images and not touch the ProjectAttachment form, them the saveAll operation must not fail, it must simple not attempt to save the blank fields in the form, if this is at all possible.
Any suggestions?
Kind regards,
Simon
Well it seems that the solution was far simpler than I had initially thought! I was partially on the right track, and I had to unset the variable ProjectArray key in the $this->request->data array if I had encountered any blank fields.
I did this as follows:
if(!empty($this->request->data['ProjectAttachment'])){
foreach($this->request->data['ProjectAttachment'] as $key => $value){
if(is_array($value) && array_key_exists('upload_file', $value)){
if($value['upload_file']['name'] == ''){ // Blank document file
unset($this->request->data['ProjectAttachment']);
}
}
}
}
I hope someone finds this somehow useful in some form or another.
Kind regards,
Simon
for example i've got a form with some input fields(every form and it's inputs with validation rules are stored in database).
Every input got it's own OnChange() which posts json (i.e. new value, input element name, ...) to controller for validation, if validation passes the new value must be saved somewhere until user clicks submit button, which will save all data to database table.
And here i'd like to ask, what this special place between ui and database can be ?
p.s.
also if user closes browser/form the next time he'll come back i need to ask him if he would like to start from an empty form or fill form with values he previously entered there.
Thank You !
Cookies or intermediary database table would work for this case.
for an intermediary database like that, you could use something like MongoDB, it is really easy to get it started, you just work with the classes you have, don't need to setup any schema, you just save the objects
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CSharp+Driver+Tutorial
If you are submitting the entire form at the end, why can't you just store the values at that time? Is this a multi-page form(s)? Why not allow the database records to be partially filled? You could always add a bit column to mark the record as complete or incomplete. This would be much simpler than duplicating your table structure.
I'm developing a web with CakePHP 1.3.7. Everything is going fine and I love it, but I just came accross a problem (probably because of my lack of knowledge) that I can't figure out how to fix.
This is my problem:
In the website, there's the typical 'manage my account' area, where users can only access when they're logged in. In this area, there's a link that calls to an action in the same 'users' controller called 'edit_items'. So when a user goes to edit_items, the action receives as a parameter the user's id (something like domain.com/users/edit_items/45, where 45 is the user's id), and shows the information in a form. The problem comes if I go directly to the address bar of the browser and change that 45 for any other user's Id, then the information of that other user is also shown, even if that user is not logged in. This is obviously a big security issue.
I've been trying to avoid passing the user's id as a parameter and getting it from the Auth component (which I'm using) with $this->Auth->User('id'). For whatever reason, I can read the logged user's info into the form fine, but when I try to save the changes on the form, I get an error as if the save action had failed, and I have no clue why.
Is there any other way to avoid my problem? Or to figure out why the save is returning an error?
Thanks!
EDIT
SO the problem comes from the validation, here's the deal: when the user fills out the form to create a new item, there are certain fields, some of them with validation rules applied. However, when the user goes back to edit the item, not all the fields are editable, only some. Is it possible that, since some fields that required validation when creating the item are not available when editing, that causes the error? How can avoid that? Can I change the validation rules only for the edit action?
Example of what's happening: when creating an item,one of the fields is item_name, which has some validation applied to it. When editing the item, its name can not be changed, so it's not shown in the edit form. I believe this what may be causing the error, maybe because the item_name is missing?
You are turned on the right direction - passing user_id on the url is a bad idea when the users need to edit their own details.
You can use following: when saving your form before the actual save you can pass the user_id to the posted data. Something like this:
if (!empty($this->data)) {
$this->data['User']['id'] = $this->Auth->user('id');
... //Some extra stuff
if ($this->User->save($this->data)) {
... //success
} else {
... //error
}
}
This way the logged user will override it's own record always. Check if you have some validation rules in your model which give you this error.
I have a Quickbase app with a form for adding records. On an intranet page, I have a link to the add record form. When a user clicks on that link, Quickbase opens the add record form. However, I would like to supply values for some of the fields on the form as parameters in the URL.
I am aware of API_AddRecord, but as I understand it, that can only be used for completely filling in all required fields and saving the record. The disprec parameter can be used to see the record, but doesn't keep the record in add mode without committing the record.
What I need to do, is to fill in a couple of the fields, but keep the record in add mode, allowing the user to fill in a couple more fields. The URLs on the intranet page are actually generated in a grid, so there are some fields that are already known then the user clicks on the link, and I don't want the user to have to type them in again.
Can this be done? Thanks for your input.
Sure. Folks do this all the time. Use a=API_GenAddRecordForm&_fid_1="foo"&_fid_2="bar" where the number are the Field IDs of the fields you want to fill out, and "foo" and "bar" are the values you want to fill in.