Saving data with saveAll() in CakePHP - cakephp

Question

This might not be the problem with saveAll, the situation is like this. I have table messages, and table sent_messages, which holds message id and user id. Models are created, where Messaage hasMany SentMessage, and SentMessage belongsTo Message. I need to save just one message in messages table, and save user ids and message id in *sent_messages* table. The problem starts when I try to save that in MessageController. Here is the code:
function custom() {
if (!empty($this->data)) {
$this->loadModel('User');
$userIDs = $this->User->listActiveUsers();
$this->data['Message']['message_type_id'] = 2;
if ($this->Message->save($this->data)) {
array_pop($this->data);
foreach ($userIDs as $key => $value ) {
$this->data['SentMessage'][$key]['user_id'] = $value;
$this->data['SentMessage'][$key]['message_id'] = $this->Message->getLastInsertID();
}
//die($this->Message->SentMessage->saveAll($this->data));
if ($this->Message->SentMessage->saveAll($this->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash('Data saved', 'success');
}
else {
$this->Session->setFlash('Data not saved', 'error');
}
}
}
}
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I think your issue come from using "$key" as key for $userIDs array, saveAll take unindexed array for hasMany relations as parameters.
More-over, saveAll is perfect to save two related model in same time. Here something that should work :
function custom() {
if (!empty($this->data)) {
$this->loadModel('User');
$this->data['Message']['message_type_id'] = 2;
$userIDs = $this->User->listActiveUsers();
foreach ($userIDs as $value ) {
$this->data['SentMessage'][]['user_id'] = $value;
}
if ($this->Message->saveAll($this->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash('Data saved', 'success');
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash('Data not saved', 'error');
}
}
}
Check the doc ! http://book.cakephp.org/view/1031/Saving-Your-Data
About using loadModel, I suppose that your SentMessage model is related to User, so you can use : $this->Message->SentMessage->User. But well no idea of which is the more efficient.

Answer 2

Easiest Way to save all data in cakephp
$this->ModelName->saveAll($data_array);
Note : name of the fields in table and in array should be same.