Question

I basically want to be able to pass a value through a function before sending the results to my view…

public function listing() {
    $this->set('posts',  $this->paginate('Post'));
}

So I want something in there to say, for example:

    foreach($posts as $post){
        $post["Post"]["timestamp"] = $this->timeago($post["Post"]["timestamp"]);
    }

And then I want to paginate the results with this field, and set ‘posts’ as the overall array that I send to the view – having updated the timestamp with the ‘timeago’ function. What is the best way of doing this?

Answer 1

you may consider to implement those method in model behavior afterFind().
for more information see: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/callback-methods.html