# Bookmark example how I set name off user in edit bookmark

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bookmark-example-how-i-set-name-off-user-in-edit-bookmark/7246>\
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**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bookmark-example-how-i-set-name-off-user-in-edit-bookmark/7246 "2020-02-07T13:54:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Santiago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Santiago](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/Santiago)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bookmark-example-how-i-set-name-off-user-in-edit-bookmark/7246/1 "2020-02-07T13:54:28Z")

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Hi everyone:  
I have followed the example of how to make a bookmark and when I am going to edit a bookmark I see that instead of being the names of the users is the id of each one. How should I put so that the combo display names?

The line that prints that is like this:

echo this-\> Form-\> control ('user\_id', ['options' =\> users]);

Thank you all.

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**Author:** ![Zuluru](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/zuluru/32/1230_2.png) [@Zuluru](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/Zuluru)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bookmark-example-how-i-set-name-off-user-in-edit-bookmark/7246/2 "2020-02-07T14:35:48Z")

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`'options' => users`? or `'options' => $users`? Presumably the latter. Show us where `$users` is being set.

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**Author:** ![dreamingmind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.cakephp.org/dreamingmind/32/1857_2.png) [@dreamingmind](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/dreamingmind)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bookmark-example-how-i-set-name-off-user-in-edit-bookmark/7246/3 "2020-02-07T20:02:07Z")

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