I am trying to save a User, their Profile, and some tags and my join table that links
the profile and
the tags keeps getting messed up.
The profile model is called Instructor,
the tag model is called Subject.
The Instructor has a phone number and a zip code and for some reason CakePHP thinks these are
the fields it should use when creating entries in my join table.
My Join table always comes out as:
id | instructor_id | subject_id |
1 | 90210 | 1 | // thinks that
the zip code is an instructor_id
2 | 1112223333 | 1 | // thinks that
the phone number is an instructor_id
3 | 1 | 1 | // thinks that user_id is an instructor_id
4 | 1 | 1 | //
the actual instructor_id, this one's correct
5 | 90210 | 2 |
6 | 1112223333 | 2 |
3 | 1 | 2 |
4 | 1 | 2 |
My Models:
class Instructor extends AppModel
{
var $name = 'Instructor';
var $belongsTo = array('User', 'State');
var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Subject' = array(
'className' = 'Subject',
'joinTable' = 'instructors_subjects',
'foreignKey' = 'instructor_id',
'associationForeignKey' = 'subject_id',
'unique' = true,
'conditions' = '',
'fields' = '',
'order' = '',
'limit' = '',
'offset' = '',
'finderQuery' = '',
'deleteQuery' = '',
'insertQuery' = ''
)
);
}
class Subject extends AppModel
{
var $name = 'Subject';
var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Instructor' = array(
'className' = 'Instructor',
'joinTable' = 'instructors_subjects',
'foreignKey' = 'subject_id',
'associationForeignKey' = 'instructor_id',
'unique' = true,
'conditions' = '',
'fields' = '',
'order' = '',
'limit' = '',
'offset' = '',
'finderQuery' = '',
'deleteQuery' = '',
'insertQuery' = ''
)
);
}
My Model Associations:
User hasOne Instructor
Instructor belongsTo User
Instructor hasAndBelongsToMany Subject
Subject hasAndBelongsToMany Instructor
My form data looks like:
Array
(
[User] = Array
(
[username] = MrInstructor
[password] = cddb06c93c72f34eb9408610529a34645c29c55d
[group_id] = 2
)
[Instructor] = Array
(
[name] = Jimmy Bob
[email] =
[email protected]
[phone] = 1112223333
[city] = Beverly Hills
[zip_code] = 90210
[states] = 5
[website] = www.jimmybobbaseballschool.com
[description] = Jimmy Bob is an instructor.
[user_id] = 1
[id] = 1
)
[Subject] = Array
(
[name] = hitting, pitching
)
)
My function for processing
the form looks like:
function instructor_register()
{
$this-set('groups', $this-User-Group-find('list'));
$this-set('states', $this-User-Instructor-State-find('list'));
if (!empty($this-data)) {
// Set
the group to Instructor
$this-data['User']['group_id'] = 2;
// Save
the user data
$user = $this-User-save($this-data, true, array(
'username',
'password',
'group_id'
));
// If
the user was saved, save
the instructor's info
if (!empty($user)) {
$this-data['Instructor']['user_id'] = $this-User-id;
$instructor = $this-User-Instructor-save($this-data, true, array(
'user_id',
'name',
'email',
'phone',
'city',
'zip_code',
'state_id',
'website',
'description'
));
// If
the instructor was saved, save
the rest
if(!empty($instructor)) {
$instructorId = $this-User-Instructor-id;
$this-data['Instructor']['id'] = $instructorId;
// Save each subject seperately
$subjects = explode(",", $this-data['Subject']['name']);
foreach ($subjects as $_subject) {
// Get
the correct subject format
$_subject = strtolower(trim($_subject));
$this-User-Instructor-Subject-create($this-data);
$this-User-Instructor-Subject-set(array(
'name' = $_subject
));
$this-User-Instructor-Subject-save();
echo '';
print_r($this-data);
echo '';
}
}
}
}
}
