Comments on: CakePHP: Update a select box using ajax

By: avnish negi

avnish negi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:11:40 +0000

Hi all, if u have still IE issue .There is a solution for u.
Don’t use select name and id same
ex..
select(’city’,array($cities),null,array(’id’=>’city_id’,'empty’=>’Select One’,”class”=>”search_dropfield”),array(’empty’=>’Select One’),false);?>
Here i am using name=city
id=city_id

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:23:40 +0000

Here’s another tutorial to accomplish the same thing with Cakephp 1.2

http://j4vk.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/cakephp-dynamic-select-boxes-ajax/

By: sbeer

sbeer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:42:37 +0000

when I use $ajax->observeField it works to upload the the articles-div, but it stays empty. the function update_select is not even called. What am I doing wrong?!

By: George

George — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:24:21 +0000

Appreciate the info guys, thanks

By: AndraÅ¾

AndraÅ¾ — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:25:08 +0000

You write, that we can return a script and execute it.
“This was just one way of doing it, we could return JSON, XML or a script thatâ€™ll get executed”

Do you have any example, how can I return a script and execute it?

By: sal

sal — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:29:12 +0000

anyone else having issues with it just populating the first select in cake 1.2 ? great tutorial, just cant seem to get it to generate the second drop down. any help is appreciated

By: Dieter@be

Dieter@be — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:45:26 +0000

Thanks, still a useful tutorial after so much time

By: baba

baba — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:23:14 +0000

very nice tutorial, i want to ask how about we don’t update to selectbox but we put return into inputbox,
the return value automatic one result…,
thanks for you kind

By: Tobman

Tobman — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:13:44 +0000

generateList() is deprecated in cake 1.2 that is correct, use

$this->Article->Category->find(’list’);

instead! You also have to change the line in update_select:

$this->Article->generateList(array(â€˜category_idâ€™=>$cat_id));

$this->Article->find(’list’, array(’conditions’ => array(’Article.category_id’ => $cat_id)));

By: Cassio Seffrin

Cassio Seffrin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:10:18 +0000

After insert data, when I edit the information of articles I don’t know how populate the articles combo without change the category combo.

In insert form the articles combo is updated when the category combo is changed. $ajax->observeField(’categories’,$options);

But in edit form is necessary do that when the form is loaded.

Somebody know how I can do that?