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POCakePHP Parent/Child Association: confusion in creating records at the same time?
 

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    <p>I will do my best to explain my situation in the hopes it will be clear enough for someone to help me out:</p> <p>I currently have a 'Requests' model. This consists of a web form and a controller that saves one or more records based on the users selection on the form (for example, if they make a bunch of selections in a multi-select box, multiple records are generated and saved). </p> <p>This works fine, but I want all of these 'Requests' to be grouped together for easy reference, since they are related. I created a new model called 'Groups.' In my 'Requests' model, I put:</p> <pre><code>var $belongsTo = array('Group' =&gt; array('className' =&gt; 'Group', 'foreignKey' =&gt; 'group_id')); </code></pre> <p>and created the group_id column in the 'requests' database table.</p> <p>In the 'Groups' controller, I put</p> <pre><code>var $hasMany = array('Requests' =&gt; array('className' =&gt; 'Request')); </code></pre> <p>Now, in my 'Requests' controller, where I do all of the processing of the form input and create the records, I tried creating a new 'Group' with </p> <pre><code>$this-&gt;Request-&gt;Group-&gt;create(); </code></pre> <p>This works, and the 'Group' database record is made (along with the 'Requests' as appropriate), but the 'group_id' field in the 'Requests' record is not set properly. When I try to do it manually, like setting it to <code>$this-&gt;Request-&gt;data['Group']['id']</code> or <code>$this-&gt;Request-&gt;Group-&gt;id</code>, CakePHP tells me this value is NULL. So I have no way to know if these associations are even working at all. </p> <p>Clearly I'm doing something wrong - do I have to move all of the creating and saving logic from my 'Requests' controller to my 'Groups' controller? Seems like this would be a pain. Is there a problem with creating a "Parent" and a bunch of "Children" at once from the controller of the "Children?"</p> <p>For the record - I'm using CakePHP 1.1, and unfortunately cannot upgrade. </p>
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