A simple question: in both CakePHP 1.2 and 1.3, created and modified fields will be automatically populated:
By defining a created or modified field in your database table as
datetime fields, CakePHP will recognize those fields and populate them
automatically whenever a record is created or saved to the database
(unless the data being saved already contains a value for these
fields).
A preliminary search of the Cookbook finds no such section for CakePHP 1.1. Is this functionality in 1.1 at all, or was it introduced with 1.2? If the former, bonus points given for ideas on how to replicate it in 1.1…
This feature is available in CakePHP 1.1, see http://api11.cakephp.org/model__php5_8php-source.html#l00867