title: How can I create multiple forms on a single page in CakePHP?
body: <p>I'm trying to come up with a standard way to create multiple forms for the same model on an index page. Here's a little more detail.</p>
  
  <p>I have a list of binders, each with a memo being displayed. I would like the memo fields to be editable from the index page. Obviously it doesn't work to just copy and paste the view for the edit_memo action, like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;Form-&gt;create('Binder');?&gt;
      &lt;fieldset&gt;
          &lt;legend&gt;&lt;?php __('Edit Memo'); ?&gt;&lt;/legend&gt;
      &lt;?php
          echo $this-&gt;Form-&gt;input('id');
          echo $this-&gt;Form-&gt;input('memo');
      ?&gt;
      &lt;/fieldset&gt;
  &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;Form-&gt;end(__('Submit', true));?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that's essentially what I'm looking to do. In context, I'm just looping through the binders in the index action and the memos are part of the model.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried changing <code>$this-&gt;Form-&gt;create('Binder')</code> to the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;Form-&gt;create(null,array(
      'id'=&gt;"BinderEditMemo.$i",
      'controller' =&gt; 'binders',
      'action' =&gt; 'edit_memo',
      'id' =&gt; $binder['Binder']['id']
  ));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But no luck. The memo field still gets the regular id, so I think I might need to change that as well. When I submit the form it does perform the action, however it does not save. FYI, I have routed the id parameter to the action in my routes. </p>
  
  <p>I'm sure there has to be a standard way to render multiple forms in the index loop. Any thoughts?</p>