CakePHP - Trying to Build Multiple SQL Inserts Using Model SaveMany( ) - cakephp

Question

I'm using cakephp 2.3.0. I have a scenario where I need to insert data in a table, but I need to do multiple inserts, based on the number of users that need the inserted data. If I have one value in the $userIds array, or more than 1 value in the $userIds array, then only one row is inserted in the table. i.e. if I had two values in the array, I would expect two rows to be inserted in my table.
I can't figure out how to correctly build my $message array with the different values from the $userIds array. In the example output below, the value of 5 gets overwritten by 3, and 3 gets overwritten by the value of 4.
When I have 2 or more values in the $userIds array, I confirm that the for loop is correctly looping through each time in the array, by the debug statement.
Below is the output of debug statements:
\app\Controller\ActivitiesController.php (line 134)
'5'
\app\Controller\ActivitiesController.php (line 134)
'3'
\app\Controller\ActivitiesController.php (line 134)
'4'
\app\Controller\ActivitiesController.php (line 136)
array(
'Message' => array(
'message' => 'The activity has been deleted.',
'user_id' => '4'
)
)
Below is my code snippet from my controller:
$this->Activity->Message->create();
foreach ($userIds as $ids) {
$message = array(
'Message' => array(
'message' => 'The activity has been deleted.',
'user_id' => $ids
)
);
debug($ids);
}
debug($message);
$this->Activity->Message->saveMany($message);

Answer 1

You reset your array each time instead of adding one element to it. So try changing your foreach like this
$message = array();
foreach ($userIds as $ids) {
$message[] = array(
'Message' => array(
'message' => 'The activity has been deleted.',
'user_id' => $ids
)
);
debug($ids);
}