CakePHP saving dynamic inputs to a single row.

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Basically I've made a form in Cakephp 2.1 with a jQuery button that appends an input field and adds a count to each of the newly created input like so:

<input type="text" name="data[foo][link]" /> // Original input
<input type="text" name="data[foo][1][link]" /> // Appended inputs
<input type="text" name="data[foo][2][link]" />
<input type="text" name="data[foo][3][link]" />

My question is if it's possible to get all of these inputs to save into the same [foo][link] table in the database (preferably as an array)?

Thanks heaps.

floriank · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-03 09:19:33Z

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public beforeSave() {
    if (isset($this->data['Foo'])) {
        $this->data['YourModel']['realField'] = serialize($this->data['Foo']);
    }
    return true;
}

In the afterFind() you revert that by using unserialize();

data[foo][link] Should be data[foo][0][link].

answered Jul 3, 2012 at 9:19

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Ryan Potter Over a year ago

Thank you so much, just letting you know that also I had to change the input data to [model][field][0] instead of [model][0][field] thanks again, feels so good when code works.

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