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More times then none when working with a database, you need a general purpose method for grabbing fields from a row that matches an id. Cake has built in magic methods based on the table column that do just that, for example findById() or findBySlug(), but sometimes it grabs associated data that you do not want. Below is a basic method that you can place in your AppModel to grab a row based on its id, with optional parameters for restricting what fields to grab or what associations to contain. Continue reading...

First off you may ask, why would we need plurals in our locale files when we are defining everything our self? Well its quite simple, it is used within the Time helper (relativeTime(), etc) and can be used in conjunction with __n(). Well here is the proper way to do it. Continue reading...

Say you have a list of messages, and on the left of each message is a checkbox. This checkbox is used for a mass deletion or mass insert function here. Now to make it easier on the user, its nice to add a checkbox outside of the list that either checks them all, or dechecks them all. The following function can achieve that effect, using jQuery of course. Continue reading...

About a week ago I talked about automatically sanitizing your data before its saved. Now I want to talk about automatically stripping HTML from your data before its saved, which is good practice. Personally, I hate saving any type of HTML to a database, thats why I prefer a BB code type system for this website. Continue reading...

So if you are like me and hate having to sanitize or clean your data manually within each action, and was hoping there was an easier way, there is. Simple combine the magic of the Models beforeSave() and the powerful strength of Sanitize::clean(). Continue reading...