I did a small app as a test,

I noticed that if I set for example a links model, where every link belongs to a linkcategory (and then a linkcategory has_many links) when I use script/generate scaffold the expected dropdowns are not created for the fields linkcategory_id in the links table.

Is this the normal way scaffolds behaves?
Or does it recognizes associations on the fly?

Dan

Cheers bermi,

Should I grab an array containing the id's and titles from the controller and then pass it to the view with your code Bermi?

Dan

No wait.. for the example above you do need one more thing: the list with linkcategories should be in Link.linkcategories, and for that to work you should have called:

$this->Link->linkcategory->load();

in your controller.

Another way to do it is to include a finder in the code in the view:

<?=$form_options_helper->select('link','linkcategory_id',$linkcategory->collect($linkcategory->find(),'name','id'));?>

@thijs

it works like a sharm!

$this->Link->linkcategory->load();

loads the model linkcategory just in a specific method of the controller

to load multiple models for the all controller I used

var $models = array('link', 'linkcategory');

Dan you can also add the include option on your finders like

$this->link->find('all', array('include'=>'linkcategories'));

BTW 4 spaces to indent blocks in markdown ;)