Question

I have a content model and a comment model. On insertion of comment I am updating the comment_count in content table using counterCache feature of cakephp(belongsTo relation), but that time it is also updating the modified date in content table which I don’t want. How can I do it ?

Answer 1

Create a custom method for that counting and updating and call it in afterSave() of your comments model and when you save the new count to the associated table make sure

$data['Item']['modified'] = false;

modified is set to false.