I'm studying Cake and I'm having a question, is there any way I can display a list, but save a number in BD?
For example, permission levels:
0 - admin
1 - vendas
2 - Edição
3 - Financeiro
In all views should only appear the text, but when saving save the number.
You can use the Entity for this, through a virtual field. Leave your field (which is saved in the bank) as hidden, and create a new field (with another name) as virtual.
Dai creates a setter that takes the string value, transforms it into a number and saves the data in the bank field, and a getter takes the bank number and returns the string.
It would look something like this:
class User extends Entity
{
protected $_hidden = ['permissoes'];
protected $_virtual = ['cargo'];
protected function _getCargo()
{
$dicionario = [
0 => 'admin',
1 => 'vendas',
2 => 'Edição',
3 => 'Financeiro'
];
return $dicionario[$this->_properties['permissoes']];
}
protected function _setCargo($cargo)
{
$dicionario = [
'admin' => 0,
'vendas' => 1,
'Edição' => 2,
'Financeiro' => 3
];
return $dicionario[$cargo];
}
}