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Asked: 2026-05-15T16:42:32+00:00

I’m stll relatively new to cakephp (1.3) and struggling with where to put the

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I’m stll relatively new to cakephp (1.3) and struggling with where to put the code to do the following.

I want to display fields from a database (as usual) but, if the value for one of the fields is null, I want to look up the value using a web service and, if the request is successful, write the returned value to the database before returning the new value. I’ve already written the code to look up the web service, I’m just not sure exactly where to put it (model or controller) to make it work most effectively.

Thanks – I’d appreciate any suggestions.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would suggest putting this in your Model within a afterFind() function. This function is automatically triggered after any find() operations are performed within that model. Within this function, you could check the value of the field, perform your lookup if necessary and update the field.

    Read about how to implement this here: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1048/Callback-Methods

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