milesjohnson

When I first started using CakePHP, I couldn't find a way to pre-populate a form with data. Why would I need this you ask? Well its simple, it would be used to edit something already existent. So what I need to do is grab the data from the database, and then populate the form. Took me a few hours to figure out how to do it, the guide really didn't explain how it should be done (or I just overlooked it). To have the data populate, all you need to do is to set $this->data to the database result. Continue reading...