Working with saveAssociated method in CakePHP - php

Question

I'm trying to work with saveAssociated method in CakePHP without great success, the method seems to work partially, in facts I have three model in the save process:
Character, which $hasMany > Property and Label so this is the Character model:
class Character extends AppModel {
public $name = 'Character';
public $belongsTo = 'User';
public $hasMany = array (
'Property' => array (
'dependent' => true
)
);
public $hasOne = array (
'Label' => array (
'dependent' => true
)
);
public $validate = array (
'name' => array (
'required' => true,
'rule' => array('between', 0, 100),
'message' => 'This is the error message for "name" field'
),
'description' => array (
'allowEmpty' => true,
'rule' => array('between', 0, 100),
'message' => 'This is the error message for "description" field'
)
);
}
this is the data I get from the form:
array(
'Character' => array(
'name' => 'Character name',
'description' => 'Character description',
'image' => 'http://url.com/image.jpg'
),
'Label' => array(
'name' => 'Basic attributes',
'value' => 'Value'
),
'Property' => array(
(int) 0 => array(
'name' => 'Strenght',
'value' => '15'
)
)
)
then in my CharactersController i do this to saveAssociated data:
class CharactersController extends AppController {
public $uses = array ('Character', 'Property', 'Label');
public function add () {
if (!empty($this->request->data)) {
$this->Character->saveAssociated($this->request->data);
}
debug ($this->request->data);
}
}
The Character data is saved successfully but not Label and Property, where I'm wrong?

Answer 1

Have you declared the other ends of the Model Association in the other two Models? Have a good look at this page. Might make life easier if you use a $hasAndBelongsToMany association.

Answer 2

Try the saveAll method instead of saveAssociated.