CakePHP form submits the "array" - mysql

Question

I am trying to create a form "Movie" as follows and my database accepts movie_id, title, year, and description. When I run the code it tries to store the "array" as the year input. This is the error I get => movie_id, title, year, description) VALUES (NULL, 'Movie1', Array, 'some text')
THE VIEW:
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Movie'); ?>
<?php echo __('Add Movie'); ?>
<?php
echo $this->Form->hidden('movie_id');
echo $this->Form->input('title');
echo $this->Form->input('year', array(
'type'=>'date',
'dateFormat'=>'Y',
'minYear'=>'1990',
'maxYear'=>date('Y'),
));
echo $this->Form->input('description');
?>
<?php echo $this->Form->end(__('Submit'));
?>
THE CONTROLLER:
public function add() {
if ($this->request->is('post')) {
$this->Movie->create();
if ($this->Movie->save($this->request->data)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The movie has been created'));
$this->redirect (array('action'=>'index'));
}
else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('The movie could not be created. Please, try again.'));
}
}
}

Answer 1

I believe your problem is here:
$this->Form->input('year', array(
'type'=>'date',
'dateFormat'=>'Y',
'minYear'=>'1990',
'maxYear'=>date('Y'),
));
Instead of it you should use
$this->Form->input('Movie.year', array(
'type'=>'text',
'name' => 'data[Movie][year]',
));
If you don't want to use 'text' type input, then use 'select' with your options array. Here main concern is, Movie.year and overwrite the default CakePHP's naming procedure to 'name' => 'data[Movie][year]'. Check here.

Answer 2

The best thing to do is to debug your $this->request->data.
I'm not sure myself, but I once have this problem. What happen is, when you define an input as a date, it will be behave as an array.
It will become $this->request->data['Movie']['year']['year'];
You can modify the data by doing the following
$this->request->data['Movie']['year'] = $this->request->data['Movie']['year']['year'];