Question

Is it possible to define find conditions that are always effective in all controllers and functions that use specific model?

For example if I want to return only products that are in stock no matter what. Maybe somewhere in model:

conditions => array('inStock >' => 0)

Answer 1

I think you could try to do a function on the model, and then call it in controller with a simple line.

Controller:

$productsInStock = $this->Product->getProductsInStock();

Model:

function getProductsInStock() {  
            $produtcsInStock = $this->find('all', array('conditions' => array('inStock >' => 0)));
            return $productsInStock;          
}

Or try this Link, I think it will help. I just don’t know nothing about callbacks: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1049/beforeFind