You do not need to have either a name or title field in your table, but they 
have their uses. Cake can use a 'name' or 'title' field to automatically 
populate lists and such. Having said that, you can override it with var 
$displayField in your model. See: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1014/Titles for 
more info.

I prefer to stick to a name field as Cake drives convention.

Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit

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On 4 Nov 2010, at 08:18, Joshua Muheim wrote:

>> Is this what you mean??
> 
> I guess not really... I have taken over an existing application where
> every table has a name field.  So I wonder if this really is a "must"
> or not.
> 
> I'm aware that every model needs a $name variable, thank you. :-)
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