How do I update 1 field in CakePHP?

Question

Hi,

I want a function to alter one field, "is_featured" to 1(true) of Event model of given ID, to mark an event as "Featured".

class EventsController extends AppController{
function feature($id){}
}

Answer 1

you can use saveField to do this for example

$this->Event->id = $id;
$this->Event->saveField('is_featured', true);

more info at http://api13.cakephp.org/class/model#method-ModelsaveField