Cakephp joining two models on insert - php

Question

OKay so i have two tables Employee and User
my employee model looks like this:
class Employee extends AppModel{
public $name = 'Employee';
public $primaryKey = "employee_id";
public $actsAs = array('Containable');
public $belongsTo = array(
'User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'dependent' => false,
'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
)
);
}
And my user model looks like this:
App::uses('AuthComponent', 'Controller/Component');
class User extends AppModel {
// ...
public function beforeSave($options = array()) {
if (isset($this->data[$this->alias]['password'])) {
$this->data[$this->alias]['password'] = AuthComponent::password($this->data[$this->alias]['password']);
}
return true;
}
public $validate = array(
'username' => array(
'required' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'A username is required'
)
),
'password' => array(
'required' => array(
'rule' => array('notEmpty'),
'message' => 'A password is required'
)
),
'role' => array(
'valid' => array(
'rule' => array('inList', array('employee', 'client')),
'message' => 'Please enter a valid role',
'allowEmpty' => false
)
)
);
}
In my employee controller i have an action that allows employees to add other employees the action looks like this:
public function add() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$this->Employee->User->create();
if ($this->Employee->User->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user has been saved'));
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user could not be saved. Please, try again.'));
}
}
}
My employee table looks like this
employee_id user_id
Now whenever i add a user the user is correctly added in my user table and a row is also added in my employee table however there are two mistakes in the employee table:
The employee_id is an auto increment this does not happen and it seems it keeps overriting 1. (so that every user i try to create is employee_id = 1)
the user_id is always 0 however in the user table the user_id is for example 21.
Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how i can fix it?
update
My add action in my employee controller now looks like this:
public function add() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$this->Employee->User->create();
if ($this->Employee->User->saveAll($this->request->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user has been saved'));
$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The user could not be saved. Please, try again.'));
}
}
}
ive added a hasMany to my user model:
public $hasMany = array(
'Employee' =>array(
'className' => 'Employee',
'dependent' => true,
'foreignKey' => 'user_id'
)
);
Still no change

Answer 1

A few issues...
1) Your primary key for employees table should be id, not employee_id. Primary keys are always named id, according to cakephp conventions - http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/getting-started/cakephp-conventions.html
2) Just as you've got a belongsTo in your Employee model, you should also add a hasOne relationship to your user model - see http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#hasone
3) In order to save a record, along with it's related data, the method you want is saveAll - check out the documentation here: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/saving-your-data.html#model-saveall-array-data-null-array-options-array