The models:

class Hood extends ActiveRecord
{
   var $has_many = 'hoodmemberships';
}

class Hoodmembership extends ActiveRecord
{
   var $belongs_to = 'hood';
}

The edit-a-hoodmembership-within-a-hood action in the Hood controller:

function edit_user()
{
  // find Hood & Membership
  $this->hood =& $this->Hood->find($this->params['id'],array('include'=>'hoodmemberships','conditions'=>"_hoodmemberships.user_id=".$this->params['userid']));

  if(!empty($this->params['user']) && !empty($this->params['userid'])){
     $this->hood->setAttributes($this->params['hood']);
     $this->hood->save();
  }

}

And the result when saving :

(mysqlt): SET AUTOCOMMIT=0
(mysqlt): BEGIN
(mysqlt): UPDATE hoods SET id=1, year=2007, master_1_user_id=0, etc ... WHERE id=1
(mysqlt): SELECT * FROM hoodmemberships WHERE hoodmemberships.user_id = '2' AND hoodmemberships.year = '2007' AND hoodmemberships.id <> '9' LIMIT 1
(mysqlt): UPDATE hoodmemberships SET id=9, hood_id=1, user_id=2, year=2007, is_enabled=1, etc ... WHERE id=9
(mysqlt): COMMIT
(mysqlt): SET AUTOCOMMIT=1
Smart Commit occurred

So an update for the fields in the associated hoodmemberships row is being triggered, just by calling $this->hood->save();

But I cannot get the new values in the update, probably because the fields in the view are not named properly.

I tried hood[hoodmemberships][0][fieldname] in the view (and other combinations) but the entered value is not picked up.

<?=$form_tag_helper->text_field_tag('hood[hoodmemberships][0][year]', $hood->hoodmemberships[0]->year);?>

Help plz !

Of course!

I tried setAttributes before, but without referencing to one instance ( [0] ). ..it's only normal that it produced an error because it's a has_many relationship.

Thanks again, Kaste!

And since it's only one membership being edited I can simplify the view. Now it's:

<?=$form_tag_helper->text_field_tag('hoodmembership[fieldname]', $hood->hoodmemberships[0]->fieldname);?>

in the view, and:

$this->hood->hoodmemberships[0]->setAttributes($this->params['hoodmembership']);

in the controller