You don't need to use updateAll. save will do all the job to create or update a record in db.
You also need to put the line: $this->$table->create(); before save a new record to db $this->loadModel($table); $row = $this->$table->find('count',array('conditions'=>array('user_id'=>$id))); if($row == 0){ $this->$table->create(); $this->$table->set(array('column' => 1, 'position' =>1,'user_id'=>$id)); $this->$table->save(); } -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php