On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, MarcS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Sorry I'm still being fairly new to cake and I have the follwing
>  problem:
>
>  I'm mass updating some data and use the following code for that
>  $this->Model->findByName("name");
>  $this->Model->save($data);
>
>  when I do that cake is inserting a new record with $data instead of
>  updating the existing one. I guess this is because it doesn't set
>  Model->id after the find operation.
>  Is there any reason why this is not being set?
>  Do I not understand how this is supposed to be done?

Sadly, Cake cannot read your mind and automatically set
$this->Model->id for you when you do a read.

$data = $this->Model->findByName("name");
$this->Model->save($data);

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