If you put the data into the array before you do your save, Cake does
the magic under the covers to figure out if the record exists already
or not.
When you do the save, Cake does a lookup to figure out if the
request needs to be an insert or delete (assuming you have the
constraints set
So are you saying you're getting data posted to you somehow that isn't
related to the tables you outlined?
I'm not clear on whet you mean by I can't control the name of the
fields coming in, but it sounds like you have the basic idea.
Cake should handle the magic for you as long as you build
Let's see if I can explain this better.
I have the models setup correctly or so I think - new to all of this.
But I am getting lots of information posted from an external source so let's
say field1, field2, field3, etc. etc.
Fields 1-10 are customer information
Fields 11-15 are product
Very new to cakePHP and of course the first thing I try doesn't follow the
model.
I am trying to create a script which takes a lot of post variables (from
1shoppingcart exactly) and then puts them in the corresponding values in my
database design.
Let's say my database is:
customers
