I worked this one out. I had the beforesave within the accounts model
while it should have been in the users model seeing that is where the
data was being saved.
Easy really but as I only just started cakephp there are many things
like this I am yet to understand.
Thanks
On Jul 7, 3:36 pm, elogic <asymo...@elogicmedia.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am having some issues with the following: I have 2 tables that I
> have saving data to, accounts and users. I need to save the password
> field within users as MD5 and so I am usingbeforesavefunction in my
> model. It seems to be ignoring it though. Any ideas how I can go about
> this?
>
> ACCOUNT model
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> functionbeforeSave() {
> if ($this->data['User'][0]['password'])
> {
> $this->data['User'][0]['password'] =
> md5($this->data['User'][0]
> ['password']);
> echo $this->data['User'][0]['password'];
> }
> return true;}
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> NOTE: Above I have echo $this->data['User'][0]['password'], this is
> printing out the encrypted password...
>
> ACCOUNT controller
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> function edit($id = null) {
> if (!$id && empty($this->data)) {
> $this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid account', true));
> $this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
> }
> if (!empty($this->data))
> {
> if ($this->Account->save($this->data))
> {
> $this->data['User'][0]['account_id'] =
> $this->Account->id;
> $this->Account->User->save($this->data);
>
> $this->Session->setFlash(__('The account has
> been saved', true));
> echo "<pre>";
> print_r($this->data);
> echo "</pre>";
> //$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
> } else {
> $this->Session->setFlash(__('The account
> could not be saved.
> Please, try again.', true));
> }
> }
> if (empty($this->data)) {
> $this->data = $this->Account->read(null, $id);
> }
> //$users = $this->Account->User->find('list');
> //$this->set(compact('users'));
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> NOTE: by this stage the password is back to the unencrypted way...
> (when I call the print_r($this->data);)
>
> Thanks
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