HTML input text box vs CakePHP Automagic Form Elements

Question

Hi all,

I was manually creating a simple form with one input text box field like this:

<form action="/user/add" method="post">
<input type="text" name="data[user_id]" value="1">

But when I call $this->model->save($this->data) in the Controller,
nothing was saved to the Table.

Only when I used this and the data in the field was written to the database successfully:

$form->create(null, array('url' => '/user/add'));
echo $form->input('user_id', array('label' => 'User ID', 'value' => '1'));

Answer 1

If you want to create the form manually,the name of the input part should be

<input type="sometype" name="data['modelname']['fieldname']" value="somevalue">

And in your code that should be

<form action="/user/add" method="post">    
<input type="text" name="data['User'][user_id]" value="1"> 

See automagic form elements in the cookbook.