$years = $this->Payments->find(‘list’, array(‘fields’ => array(‘year’, ‘year’)));

Sorry for my bad english, I am Brazilian.

1. If you just return something then you can’t use it in your view to populate SELECT box. Maybe you omitted $this->set() just to keep your code simple though.
2. With $this->set() your solution would pass through
   array(0 => value1, 1 => value2 …)
   and thus if I choose value1 in the SELECT box it’s in fact “0″ that gets submitted.
   We need
   array(value1 => value1, value2 => value2 …)
   because we want value1 submitted.
3. I also considered that you were in fact, just suggesting to use find(‘list). But then again you get
   array(0 => value1, 1 => value2 …)

But thanks for commenting. Expressing opinions, making suggestions. That’s what these comments are for.

$list = $this->find(‘list’, array(‘fields’ => array(‘Model.field’)));
return array_unique($list);

My best guess is that your find call doesn’t return a valid search result array (e.g. because of a typo in a field name), or you changed the variable name that holds it but forgot to change it later in the combine call as well. I create this kind of errors all the time.

Petr

I’m still perplexed with simply populating a SELECT box with distinct values from a table column.

Something like:

$this->set(‘citylist’, $this->Zldinput->find(‘list’, array(‘fields’=>’Zldinput.City’, ‘group’=>’Zldinput.City’)));

gets me close, but as you mention my array has elements of the id and City thus my SELECT gets

BOSTON

where I want the ……value=”BOSTON”>BOSTON.

your solution is close but combine throws an error on $events

Cheers, Steve