Form not updating database table in cakephp code? - php

Question

Hey everyone I am facing this problem the form is not updating when I click submit. It goes in if($this->request->is("post")){....} block but it is not updating.
Here is the code.
PagesController.php
public function admin_edit($id=NULL){
$this->request->data = $this->Page->find("first",array("conditions"=>array("Page.id"=>$id)));
if($this->request->is('post')){
$this->request->data["Page"]["id"] = $id;
if($this->Page->save($this->data)){
echo "Done";
}
}
}
admin_edit.php
URL -> http://localhost/cakephp_practice/admin/pages/edit/4
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="DataTable">
<tr>
<th>Administrator > Edit Page</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Page', array("action" => "edit", "method" => "Post",'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data', 'id' => 'editPage'));
?>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="2"> <span class="require">* Please note that all fields that have an asterisk (*) are required. </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Name: <font color="red">*</font></td>
<td align="left"><?php echo $this->Form->text('Page.name', array('maxlength' => '254', 'size' => '20', 'label' => '', 'div' => false, 'class' => "form-inbox required")) ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>
<?php echo $this->Form->submit('Submit', array('maxlength' => '50', 'size' => '30', 'label' => '', 'div' => false)) ?>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(); ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I have used Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', 'admin'); to automatically resolve url like localhost://project_name/admin/pages/edit to admin_edit action of pages controller.
Edit: When I print_r($this->request->data); in if block then the name field is still containing the old value not the new one I entered. Why is that?

Answer 1

This line:-
if($this->Page->save($this->data)){
Should be:-
if($this->Page->save($this->request->data)){
However, the first line of your method is overwriting $this->request->data which should contain your form data!