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    <p>I am working on a book review application and I am using autoComplete to search for titles in when creating a review. The review model has an associated book_id field and the relationship is setup as the review hasOne book and a book hasMany reviews.</p> <p>I am trying to pass the Book.id (into the book_id field), but I want to display Book.name for the user to select from. With the default setup (accomplished via CakePHP's tutorial), I can only pass Book.name. Is it possible to display the name and pass the id?</p> <p>Also, I am passing it via the following code in the create() action of the review controller:</p> <pre><code>$this-&gt;data['Review']['book_id'] = $this-&gt;data['Book']['id']; </code></pre> <p>Is that the proper way to do it in CakePHP? I know in Ruby on Rails, it is automatic, but I can't seem to make it work automagically in CakePHP. Finally, I am not using the generator because it is not available in my shared hosting environment... so if this is the wrong way, what do I need other than associates in my models to make it happen automatically?</p> <p>Thanks for the help and I promise this is my question for awhile...</p> <p>UPDATE- I tried the following, but it is not working. Any ideas why?</p> <pre><code> function autoComplete() { $this-&gt;set('books', $this-&gt;Book-&gt;find('all', array( 'conditions' =&gt; array( 'Book.name LIKE' =&gt; $this-&gt;data['Book']['name'].'%' ), 'fields' =&gt; array('id','name') ))); $this-&gt;layout = 'ajax'; } </code></pre> <p>The problem is that when I use the code above in the controller, the form submits, but it doesn't save the record... No errors are also thrown, which is weird.</p> <p>UPDATE2:</p> <p>I have determine that the reason this isn't working is because the array types are different and you can't change the array type with the autoComplete helper. As a workaround, I tried the follow, but it isn't working. Can anyone offer guidance why?</p> <pre><code>function create() { if($this-&gt;Review-&gt;create($this-&gt;data) &amp;&amp; $this-&gt;Review-&gt;validates()) { $this-&gt;data['Review']['user_id'] = $this-&gt;Session-&gt;read('Auth.User.id'); $this-&gt;Book-&gt;find('first', array('fields' =&gt; array('Book.id'), 'conditions' =&gt; array('Book.name' =&gt; $this-&gt;data['Book']['name']))); $this-&gt;data['Review']['book_id'] = $this-&gt;Book-&gt;id; $this-&gt;Review-&gt;save($this-&gt;data); $this-&gt;redirect(array('action' =&gt; 'index')); } else { $errors = $this-&gt;Review-&gt;invalidFields(); } } </code></pre> <p>FINAL UPDATE:</p> <p>Ok, I found that the helper only takes the find(all) type or array and that the "id" field wasn't passing because it only applied to the autoComplete's LI list being generated. So, I used the observeField to obtain the information and then do a database lookup and tried to create a hidden field on the fly with the ID, but that didn't work. Finally, the observeField would only take the characters that I put in instead of what I clicked, due to an apparent Scriptaculous limitation. So, I ended up going to a dropdown box solution for now and may eventually look into something else. Thanks for all of the help anyway!</p>
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