Dropdown select list in CakePHP

Question

Does anybody know how to select the contents of one take from a different view in CakePHP?

I have a take itemgroups that has 2 fields ID an

Answer 1

Here is the code to display a select dropdown.

input('inputname', array('type'=>'select', 'options'=>$cate, 'label'=>false, 'empty'=>'Category')); ?>

where $cate is loaded with an array from a find('list') in the format

array(0 => 'option1', 1=>'option2', etc etc etc