If you know which field you need to update perhaps you could try using : saveField(string $fieldName, string $fieldValue, $validate = false)
From : http://book.cakephp.org/view/75/Saving-Your-Data GL - Phil On Aug 11, 8:03 pm, tron <tken...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem with one specific controller trying to INSERT instead > of UPDATE and I am getting duplicate entry errors. the "$this->data" > variable contains the correct primary key of table I'm trying to > update, but still tries to INSERT instead. Most notable text message > is this in the debug dump: SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `employees` > AS `Employee` WHERE `Employee`.`id` IS NULL. Apparently its not > getting the id at all? > > Code: > > function edit( $id = null ) > { > pr( $id ); > pr( $this->data ); > $this->Employee->id = $id; > > if( !empty( $this->data ) ) > { > if( $this->Employee->save( $this->data ) ) > { > } > > } else { > $this->data = $this->Employee->read( null, $id ); > } > } > > Both the pr functions display the correct data that suggests it should > be doing an UPDATE instead of INSERT. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
