Filling a select tag

By Ady Gould (KiltOtter)
On my hunt for a simple explanation on how to do things in CakePHP, I found I was coming up with ingredients, but not getting any baking done.

This short snippet is the first example in how to fill a select tag using Cake.
In your controller use something like:

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function index()
{
    $this->set('studyareas',$this->Studyarea->findAll());
    $this->set('studyarealist', $this->Studyarea->generateList( 
                null, "areaName ASC", null, "{n}.Studyarea.id", 
                "{n}.Studyarea.areaName")
                );
}
The snippet above gets all the studyareas from the studyarea table, and then saves the id and areaName in the atudyarealist variable.

In the view we use something like:
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    <?php echo $html->selectTag('Studyareas/areaName', $studyarealist);?>