How do you get values from models?

Question

After loading a model I the only way to get to the data seems to be very ugly.

$this->User->read(NULL, 49);
print $this->User->data['User']['email'];

Most frameworks have a much nicer way of accessing like

$User = new Model_User(49);
print $User->email;

Is there anyway to do this in CakePHP 1.2/3?

Answer 1

The normal case is when you assign the result from this->read to a variable i.e.:

$user = $this->User->read(NULL, 49);
print $user['User']['email'];

Answer 2

If you're looking for a more type safe way to do it, unfortunately not. All model access is based on array structures and is one of the very things that frustrated me about Cake.