Retireving data from arrays - cakephp

Question

I have this data spited out from my cake php query.. This is the problem.. How can i retrieve this data so that it fits this structure. How can I do this in my view?, I am just having trouble understanding how to retrieve each value
so this part I want it in a <p></p> in my page
array
'id' => string '1' (length=1)
'category_name' => string 'Appetizers' (length=10)
'category_keywords' => string 'appetizer, appetizers' (length=21)
'category_title' => string 'Our Side Dishes' (length=15)
'category_info' => string 'Hello This is the category info' (length=30)
'dish_id' => string '1' (length=1)
This other part returned of the query i want to put it in a 3 x 2 table. like
<table>
<tr>
<td> the data from the array 0</td>
<td> the data from the array 1</td>
<td> the data from the array 2>/td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> the data from the array 3</td>
<td> the data from the array 4</td>
<td> the data from the array 5>/td>
</tr>
here are all the those arrays. I would like to use a for loop with a mod if 3 %== 0 and then create a new <tr>, i tried it but it gave me an error...
array
'id' => string '1' (length=1)
'category_name' => string 'Appetizers' (length=10)
'category_keywords' => string 'appetizer, appetizers' (length=21)
'category_title' => string 'Our Side Dishes' (length=15)
'category_info' => string 'Hello This is the category info' (length=441)
'dish_id' => string '1' (length=1)
array
0 =>
array
'id' => string '1' (length=1)
'dish_name' => string 'Arepa Con Pollo!' (length=16)
'dish_disc' => string 'Exquisite corn patti, the best yyy' (length=34)
'dish_price' => string '2.90' (length=4)
'dish_image' => string '/img/arepa rellena con pollo.jpeg' (length=33)
'dish_category_id' => string '1' (length=1)
'dish_price_label' => string 'Delicious Arepa ' (length=16)
1 =>
array
'id' => string '2' (length=1)
'dish_name' => string 'Arepa Con Queso' (length=15)
'dish_disc' => string 'Corn patie with Cheese' (length=22)
'dish_price' => string '2.65' (length=4)
'dish_image' => string '/img/arepa rellena con queso.jpeg' (length=33)
'dish_category_id' => string '1' (length=1)
'dish_price_label' => string '' (length=0)
2 =>
array
'id' => string '3' (length=1)
'dish_name' => string 'Empanadas de Carne' (length=18)
'dish_disc' => string 'Patties with beef' (length=17)
'dish_price' => string '1.60' (length=4)
'dish_image' => string '/img/empanadas de carne.jpeg' (length=28)
'dish_category_id' => string '1' (length=1)
'dish_price_label' => string '' (length=0)
3 =>
array
'id' => string '4' (length=1)
'dish_name' => string 'Empanadas de Pollo' (length=18)
'dish_disc' => string 'Patties with Chicken' (length=20)
'dish_price' => string '1.94' (length=4)
'dish_image' => string '/img/empanadas de pollo.jpeg' (length=28)
'dish_category_id' => string '1' (length=1)
There are more arrays besides these.. but they all have the same format.
These come from working with the following controllers
class DishCategory extends AppModel{
public $hasMany = array(
'Dish' => array(
'className' => 'Dish',
'foreignKey' => 'dish_category_id'
)
);
}
class DishCategoriesController extends AppController {
function get_categories($id)
{
// find category with a dish of $id
$this->set('dishes', $this->DishCategory->find('first', array(
'conditions' => array(
'DishCategory.id' => $id
)
)));
// set master layout
$this->layout = 'master_layout';
}
}

Answer 1

Use this->set('variableName', $data); to pass your arrays from the controller to the view.
You can then access the example above as $variableName in your view. I would recommend doing a <?php debug($variableName); ?> first to see what your array looks like in the view. It should be the same, but it will help you know what indices to use.
For more info: http://book.cakephp.org/view/979/set