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

This is the right solution in my opinion: of choices from column SET or ENUM type

* 
* @param string $sColumn - col name
* @param string $sTable - if use other table as Model
* @return array 
*/
function fGetArrayFromSQLSet($sColumn, $sTable=null) {

    # Pokud neni urcena tabulka, pouzij tabulku modelu
    if( !$sTable ) {
        $sTable= $this->useTable;
    }

    # Nacti nastaveni daneho pole dane tabulky
    $tmpHlaseno=$this->query("SELECT COLUMN_TYPE
                    FROM information_schema.columns
                    WHERE TABLE_NAME = '$sTable'
                        AND COLUMN_NAME = '$sColumn'
        "); //db($tmpHlaseno);
    $tmpList= $tmpHlaseno[0]['columns']['COLUMN_TYPE']; 

    # Ziskej hodnoty z nastaveni a uloz je do pole
    $sTmp= str_replace(')', '', str_replace('set(', '', str_replace('enum(', '', $tmpList)));
    $aTmp= explode(',', str_replace("'", '', $sTmp));
    foreach( $aTmp as $value ) {
        $aSetList[$value]= $value;
    }   //db($aSetList);

    return $aSetList;   
}       // END of fGetArrayFromSQLSet