On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Caroline <[email protected]> wrote:
> sorry, not sure I follow. How?
> Because if the field is blank, Cake does not insert NULL, it just
> ignore the field.

My bad. I forgot we were talking about an update. So, if the column
was defined to be DEFAULT NULL, and the user deletes the description
form element's content, you'd want the field to be updated to NULL. I
think you can achieve that by having the validation rule 'allowEmpty'
= true.

> I would have to explicitly write
> If ($data['Taxcode']['description']=='') $data['Taxcode']
> ['description'] = null;
> before calling the save method.
> I know I can use beforeSave and other workarounds, but I just wanted
> to make sure I was not doing something wrong :P

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