Hi everyone,
I’m reading documentation about form helper, but I don’t really get the part “values resources”. Is it about setting default value for input tag?
Thank you.
https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/views/helpers/form.html#getting-form-values-from-other-values-sources
Yes, that’s correct. It mostly applies to editing existing records, but there are other scenarios too, like setting default values for new records.
Thank you for your reply, So I wonder how it is different between context, data and query? I can understand the difference between query and data (the form will parse data from get and post methods).
But I don’t really get context? Is it for the scenario that you described (setting default values?).
Right now, I am using $this->set(); multiple times in one controller whenever I have to send a new context to the view. I wonder if this is the right way?
Thank you for your help!
The context is 1st argument you pass to FormHelper::create(), which is usually an entity, resulset or Form class instance.