I am not sure about any one else... but for me I normally have the id from either passing it in, or having it from related data. I must just not do a lot of "UPDATE"-ing. :)
I do use this for shell scripts more than web request type functions, because my shell scripts are generally more prone to do mass-updates. I will have to look around my code and see where I could optimize some of the updating methods. ??? -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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