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POHABTM dropdown items not selected
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I created a site for fun to learn CakePHP but for some reason I can't get a multiple select dropdown box to show my selected items. In this example 1 video game can have multiple difficulties (easy, normal, hard). On my Game edit page I have a multi select box to pick the difficulties. It shows all three difficulties and I can select them and it saves correctly. However when I return to the edit page the items I previously saved do not show highlighted as selected. I have verified that the records are saving correctly in the database. Tables: games difficulties difficulties_games Models: <pre><code>class Game extends AppModel { public $actsAs = array('Containable'); public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'Difficulty' => array( 'className' => 'Difficulty', 'joinTable' => 'difficulties_games', 'foreignKey' => 'game_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'difficulty_id', 'unique' => 'true' ) ); } class Difficulty extends AppModel { public $actsAs = array('Containable'); public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( 'Game' => array( 'className' => 'Game', 'joinTable' => 'difficulties_games', 'foreignKey' => 'difficulty_id', 'associationForeignKey' => 'game_id', 'unique' => 'true' ) ); } </code></pre> Controller: <pre><code>$game = $this->Game->findById($id); $this->set('difficulties', $this->Game->Difficulty->find('list')); </code></pre> View (edit.ctp): <pre><code>echo $this->Form->input('Difficulty'); </code></pre> This has to be something simple I am missing but I've read through the book on HABTM and searched here and couldn't find much on multi-select boxes. UPDATE: Here is the entire edit function in the controller: <pre><code>public function edit($id = null) { if (!$id) { throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid post')); } $game = $this->Game->findById($id); if (!$game) { throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid post')); } if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put')) { $this->Game->id = $id; if ($this->Game->saveAll($this->request->data)) { $this->Session->setFlash('Your game has been updated.'); $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index')); } else { $this->Session->setFlash($this->Game->invalidFields()); } } if (!$this->request->data) { $this->request->data = $game; } $this->set('systems', $this->Game->System->find('list')); $this->set('genres', $this->Game->Genre->find('list')); $this->set('difficulties', $this->Game->Difficulty->find('list')); } </code></pre> Also here is some more on the View: <pre><code>echo $this->Form->create('Game'); echo $this->Form->input('name'); echo $this->Form->input('system_id'); echo $this->Form->input('genre_id'); echo $this->Form->input('Difficulty'); echo $this->Form->input('id', array('type' => 'hidden')); echo $this->Form->end('Save Game'); </code></pre>
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HABTM dropdown items not selected
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1. COIt depends on what you are doing in your controller. What does the `edit()` function look like? What are you doing with the variable `$game`?
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