I am working on this ticket: https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/4190
Up to now I have been operating under the idea that if I am updating a record, that it is not necessary to explicitly declare the values for every column in the database row. I figured that in the logic for Model::save() that it would check to make sure that if any values are already set, that those values will not get overwritten. However, after doing a bit of investigating, it appears that my assumption might be wrong. According to my reading of the logic within the Model class, the following happens: -- if the column 'fieldname' has a default value in it's scheme, this value is set in $this->data[ tablename ][ fieldname ] -- if the $data array passed to either create() or save() does not have an explicitly set value for $this->data[ tablename ] [ fieldname ], then the default value will be entered EVEN IF A VALUE CURRENTLY EXISTS. Is this a bug? Or is this how it is supposed to work? Should we always be using the controller to retrieve all values in a record before sending that data array to the Model::save() function? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
