CakePHP 1.3 - Getting nested data from Form->input()?

Question

I'm upgrading a system from CakePHP 1.1 to CakePHP 1.3. In 1.1 I was able to use the HTML helper to do something like:

$html->input('User/email');

To get back data nested in:

$this->data['User']['email']

In the controller. Now I know that $html->input() has been replaced with $this->Form->input() . However, when I try to use:

$this->Form->input('User/email')

I get:

Undefined offset: 2 [CORE\cake\libs\view\helpers\form.php, line 496]

This is coming up because the / in the input. So it seems that 1.3 doesn't like using the / to specify the data should be returned nested. How might I achieve the equivalent of this in 1.3? Thank you much!

Answer 1

In 1.3 you would use

$this->Form->input('User.email');

To set an input for the User model and the email field.

If you have set up your form correctly though, you just need email

For example

$this->Form->create('User');

$this->Form->input('email');

$this->Form->end('Submit');

But in short, to answer your specific question, replace the / with a .