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

You can use like this in your controller and view...

//In Controller:
    $data=$this->Model->find('list',array('conditions'=>array()));
    $this->set('data',$data);

//In View:

    echo $this->Form->select('field_name',$data,null,array("escape"=>false,"empty"=>"select"));

If you want to show initially select value in dropdown then you can pass value where use null in above line.