Most tutorials or tips online refer to before Save () as a good before saving to clean data and what not but never have i seen anything on beforeValidate as beforeValidate seems to be better to use i would think. No? For example city has validation rules say min 5 characters if someone enters "<p>b</p>" into the city field that meets the minimum 5 character yes then you beforeSave clean out the html so you left with "b" as the city name yet thats not 5 charaters you were wanting to ensure. so you save "b" as the city name Is it not best to say use beforeValidate to clean up your data make sure it meets validation if so then do your beforesave on that data? I was using beforeSave and noticed i could trick cake into thinking it was ok and could actually just put html tags into fields to meet min requirements, a-z-0-9 and actually save an entire form record and every field inthe db was completely blank because it said it was valid and the data that was safe to save was actually nothing yet i set up notempty => true. Any thoughts? Dave
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