I have a cakephp 1.3 app which get's a person's consent to participate in a study. I'm trying to link inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria for the study on the Add study page. The HABTM relationship is setup and working(If there's only one way to select them) What I'm trying to do now is display the current Inclusion Criteria as a list of checkboxes the person adding the study can select, but I also want a field where new criteria can be entered as a comma seperated list. Right now it will save the checkboxes, but I want it to also add the text entered in the field as well. Screen showing the Add study as it sits now is below. I don't really know how I would go about doing that. Is there a way to do this or will I have to take the data entered, sort through it and then add it to $this->data[inclusion field data]? An example would be nice. :) I've added the code I have so far below the image.
Controller:
/**
* Add a study.
*/
function add() {
if (!empty($this->data)) {
//get the inclusions from the text data
//Sort through the comma seperated list and add it to $this->data['Study']['Inclusions']???
$this->Study->create();
if ($this->Study->save($this->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The study has been saved', true));
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The study could not be saved. Please, try again.', true));
}
}
$this->set('inclusions', $this->Study->Inclusion->find('list', array(
'fields' => array('id', 'name'),
'order' => 'Inclusion.name',
'recursive' => 0,
)));
$this->set('exclusions', $this->Study->Exclusion->find('list', array(
'fields' => array('id', 'name'),
'order' => 'Exclusion.name',
'recursive' => 0,
)));
$this->set('forms', $this->Study->Form->find('list', array('order' => 'Form.name','recursive' => 0,)));
}
View:
<div class="studies form">
<?php echo $this->Form->create('Study', array('type' => 'file'));?>
<fieldset>
<legend><?php __('Add Study'); ?></legend>
<?php
echo $this->Form->input('studyname', array('label'=>'Study Name','required' => true));
echo $this->Form->input('studynumber', array('label'=>'Study Number','required' => true));
echo $this->Form->input('file', array('label'=>'Select Electronic Consent','type' => 'file'));
echo $this->Form->input('consent_form_date');
?>
<fieldset class="inclusion">
<legend><?php __('Inclusions'); ?></legend>
<div class="IncExc">
<?php
echo $this->Form->input('Inclusion',array(
'label' => false,
'type' => 'select',
'multiple' => 'checkbox',
'options' => $inclusions,
'selected' => $html->value('Inclusion.Inclusion'),
));
?>
</div>
<?php
echo $form->input('Inclusion.inclusions',array(
'type' => 'text',
'label' => __('Add New Inclusions',true),
'after' => __('Seperate each new Inclusion with a comma. Eg: family, sports, icecream',true)
));
?>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<legend><?php __('Exclusions'); ?></legend>
<div class="IncExc">
<?php
echo $this->Form->input('Exclusion',array(
'label' => false,
'type' => 'select',
'multiple' => 'checkbox',
'options' => $exclusions,
'selected' => $html->value('Exclusion.Exclusion'),
));
?>
</div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset style="width: 700px;">
<legend><?php //__('Forms'); ?></legend>
<?php /*
echo $this->Form->input('Form',array(
'label' => false,
'type' => 'select',
'multiple' => 'checkbox',
'options' => $forms,
'selected' => $html->value('Form.Form'),
));
*/ ?>
</fieldset>
</fieldset>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(__('Submit', true));?>
</div>