Question

Currently i have 2 models. Users and Appbreak.
They have associations of
Users has many appbreak.
Appbreaks belongs to users
In my appbreak controller, there is a approve function which is called when a button from the view page is pressed.

In this function, i will need to update a value in the table of appbreak and a value in users table.
I’m able to update value in appbreak by using the following:

$this->Appbreak->id = $id;
    $this->Appbreak->set('approve', 'Yes');
    $this->Appbreak->save();

However, i’m unable to pull the required data value from users table. <– need to do so as i need to do some calculations before passing back the calculated value.

Am i able to get data from another model using the request method? Or do i need to use the find method? If i use the find method, am i able to update the the values and save it back into the database?

Answer 1

Use find() to get your values, and if you need to update the values, use save(). Like so:

$this->Appbreak->Users->find('first', $params); 

(as described here)

To save, simply create an array with at least the relevant record id. Include any fields you want to update, and then call the save method on the array like so:

$data = array('id' => 10, 'title' => 'My new title');
// This will update Recipe with id 10
$this->Recipe->save($data);