Drupal does something like this called revisions.  You could implement
a much simpler version of this in your application by adding 2 columns
to your database called revision and display.  Revision would just be
a revision number and you could use a timestamp as the field so it
would be unique and also keep track of creation time.  The display
column would just be a boolean showing which revision to show.  Then
you would implement some revision control actions in your controller
to manage the revisions.

This would actually be awesome if generalized and written as a
behavior.  Unfortunately, I just don't have the time right now. :(

On Jul 19, 6:01 pm, Jay <jingsi....@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok guys, so here is the situation:
>
> - we have built up a website using cakephp and it contains several
> models.
> - we want some users to be able to "make changes" to the database via
> webpage
> - but we want to audit the changes before they are actual made to the
> database
>
> Our problem is, how do we know what the user changed if those changes
> are not "saved" the first time around. We are thinking of displaying a
> mock database and have the admin merge it with the real db. Is there
> any other way to tackle this?
> Thanks for all your inputs.

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