Hello David,
I think you can use find('first', $params) function to retrieve your data.
Please see the link http://book.cakephp.org/view/449/find . It covers
diffrent ways of using the find function.
Hope this may help you.
- Haripriya
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:41 AM, David <da...@reflashed.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was curious as to what's the best way is to find a row's id based
> off another field's value.
>
> example:
>
> function sortByGenre($genre_name) {
> $genre = $this->Game->Genre->find('all', array('conditions'=>array
> ('value'=>$category_name)));
> $genre_id = $genre[0]['Genre']['value'];
> }
>
> ...Now I know there's got to be a better way. Does cakePHP have any
> convenience functions or any other way to make this simpler? I have a
> feeling I'm approaching this in the completely wrong way.
>
> David
> >
>
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