Settings page and multi edit rows - cakephp

Question

I would like to make a configuration page like this for my CMS
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/72087272ok.png
I want this page (admin/settings/index) gets me the various settings (ID 1 to 21) came to my table and in case of change, I can, in this form, do an update
After 3 days of not especially fruitful research I found something. I put in my SettingsController:
admin_index public function () {
if (!empty($this->data)) {
$this->Setting->saveAll($this->request->data['Setting']);
} else {
$this->request->data['Setting'] = Set::combine($this->Setting->find('all'),
'{n}. Setting.id', '{n}. Setting');
}
}
and my view:
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Setting', array ('class' => 'form-horizontal'));
foreach($this->request->data['Setting'] as $key => $value) {
echo $this->Form->input('Setting.' . $key . '.pair');
echo $this->Form->input('Setting.' . $key . '.id');
}
echo $this->Form->end(array('class' => 'btn btn-primary', 'label' => 'Save',
'value' => 'Update!', 'div' => array ('class' => 'form-actions')));
?>
he is recovering well all my information, I can even update. The trouble is that I do not really know how I can do to get the same result as my first screenshot. He puts everything in the textarea while in some cases I want the checkbox and / or drop-down.
please help me or explain to me how to make a page that retrieves configuration information from my table and allows me to edit without use an address like admin/settings/edit/ID
My table settings is something like this here
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/724403settings.png

Answer 1

If you are asking about how to format the output to produce a "settings" page, you will need to do it manually or add some kind of metadata to your table schema, such as "field_type".
Now Cake will automatically generate a checkbox for a boolean or tiny int, for example, but as you have varchars, ints, texts and so on, this won't work for you (pair is presumably varchar or text to allow for the different possible values.
You cannot really automagically generate the outputs you want without telling Cake.
One option would be to add a field_type to the table, so:
key value field
site_name My Site input
site_online 1 checkbox
meta_desc [some text] textarea
and something like
foreach($settings as $setting) {
echo $this->Form->{$setting['field']}($setting['key'],
array('value' => $setting['value']));
}
might do what you are after.
Or if($key=='site_name') // output a textbox
but this is not exactly ideal.