Trying to saveall() into two separate tables with several entries

Hey all. I can't for the life of me seem to get this blasted saveall() function to work. I told it was magical, but I must not have enough midichlorians or whatever fancy stuff it takes to get it sparkin'.

So I've got four different tables--Questions, Comments, Employees, and Answers. Questions have many answers, and answers have one comment. Answers belong to Employees. Here's what's set up in my models:

Answer Model

var $hasOne = array(
    'Comment' => array(
        'className' => 'Comment',
        'foreignKey' => 'answer_id',
        'conditions' => '',
        'fields' => '',
        'order' => ''
    )
);

var $belongsTo = array(
    'Question' => array(
        'className' => 'Question',
        'foreignKey' => 'question_id',
        'conditions' => '',
        'fields' => '',
        'order' => ''
    ),
    'Employee' => array(
        'className' => 'Employee',
        'foreignKey' => 'employee_id',
        'conditions' => '',
        'fields' => '',
        'order' => ''
    )
);

Comment Model

var $validate = array(
    'answer_id' => array(
        'numeric' => array(
            'rule' => array('numeric'),
        ),
    ),
);

var $belongsTo = array(
    'Answer' => array(
        'className' => 'Answer',
        'foreignKey' => 'answer_id',
        'conditions' => '',
        'fields' => '',
        'order' => ''
    )
);

When I run saveall() for my data, I'm getting an error saying that my answer_id for my comments are not numeric. Here's what my data tree is set up like that I'm trying to save (using $this->Answer->saveall($this->data);:

[Answer] => Array
        (
            [1] => Array
                (
                    [question_id] => 1
                    [employee_id] => 14
                    [result] => 7
                    [unique_hash] => t9279kn7vh
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [question_id] => 3
                    [employee_id] => 14
                    [result] => 6
                    [unique_hash] => t9279kn7vh
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
      开发者_开发问答              [question_id] => 4
                    [employee_id] => 14
                    [result] => 3
                    [unique_hash] => t9279kn7vh
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [question_id] => 5
                    [employee_id] => 14
                    [result] => 2
                    [unique_hash] => t9279kn7vh
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [question_id] => 6
                    [employee_id] => 14
                    [result] => 7
                    [unique_hash] => t9279kn7vh
                )

        )

    [Comment] => Array
        (
            [1] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 14
                    [text] => test1
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 14
                    [text] => test2
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 14
                    [text] => test3
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 14
                    [text] => test4
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [user_id] => 14
                    [text] => test5
                )

        )

Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong here? I appreciate the help.

EDIT: I've updated the $data array to have its keys start at zero with increments of one (i.e., array(0=>array(),1=>array(),2=>array()); etc.) and this has taken away the validation error, but the data still isn't saving.

try this one:

$this->Answer->saveall($this->data['Answer']);
$this->Comment->saveall($this->data['Comment']);

for some reason, cakephp sometimes don't automatically save all records of related tables even if you defined their relationships. I'm still trying to figure out why.

SaveAll just doesn't save other related tables. We do exactly what you said, we define them ourselves, we even link the id's manually. It's sorta a pain but it's the best option.