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    <p>I'm developing a simple application with CakePhp, and need some help on creating a multi-record edit form using some related data. </p> <p>The application I'm developing is pretty straightforward, its main purpose is managing students records: updating, deleting, changing a student from one group to another, the usual suspects. </p> <p>The relevant tables of the database are:</p> <p><strong>group</strong> = (<em>id</em>, teacher, classroom, etc)<br> <strong>groups_students</strong>=(<em>groupID</em>, <em>studentID</em>, since, until)<br> <strong>students</strong> = (<em>id</em>, name, last_name, etc)<br> <strong>assitance</strong> = (<em>id</em>, assitance, date)<br> <strong>assistance_students</strong> (<em>studentID</em>, <em>assitanceID</em>, meta_information ) </p> <p>As you might have gathered from the tables above, the application is supposed to aid in recording assitance. Which is where I'm having some issues.</p> <p>What I want to do is this:</p> <ul> <li>Have the user select a group</li> <li>In de detail group, I'll have an action called "Register Assistance"</li> <li><p>Register assitance should redirect to a view in wich for every student belonging to that group, the user can see the student's assitance, edit them, and save. Something like this:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sw13d.jpg" alt="example of table/form"></p></li> </ul> <p>In which <strong>A</strong> stands for "Absent" and <strong>P</strong> for "Present" and the user can edit everyone, and the save.</p> <p>I just don't know how to go about that? How do I manage that? I've managed to create a multi-edit form for the assitance, but adding the related data is a pain, I don't know if I should query the students from the groups controllers and then pass that to the action to register assitance, or manage all the logic inside the assitance controller? </p> <p>Any help would be great,</p> <p>thanks!</p> <p>Edit: Here's the output of <code>$this-&gt;Student-&gt;find('first');</code></p> <pre><code>Array ( [Alumno] =&gt; Array ( [id] =&gt; 14 [tipo] =&gt; dni [dni] =&gt; 2321312312 [apellido] =&gt; COQUITO [nombre] =&gt; Pepe [carrera] =&gt; Composición Musical [creado] =&gt; 2011-01-08 17:59:00 [modificado] =&gt; 2011-01-08 17:59:00 ) ) </code></pre> <p>The output is in spanish. <strong>Alumno</strong> = Student, <strong>nombre</strong>= first name, <strong>apellido</strong>= last_name. </p>
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    1. COcan you dump `$this->Student->find('first');` output in your question.
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    2. COjust added it, Ish Kumar. Thanks!
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