Sanitise data in cakephp

Question

I want to sanitize data in cakephp but i am facing a problem. i have a form with a date field . When i tried to sanities all the data the date looses it's mysql format and is stored in the db as a rubbish data(1970-01-01) but if i remove the sanitize it works fine

i tried the following

 function beforeSave() 
    {
       $this->data = Sanitize::clean($this->data);
       return true;
    }

i also tried this and this works but it defeats the purpose

function beforeSave() 
{

   $date = $this->data['Cabinet']['date_of_inspection'];        
   $this->data = Sanitize::clean($this->data);
   $this->data['Cabinet']['date_of_inspection'] = $date;
   return true;
}

what is the way out

Answer 1

From CakePHP Manual :

CakePHP already protects you against SQL Injection if you use CakePHP's ORM methods (such as find() and save()) and proper array notation (ie. array('field' => $value)) instead of raw SQL. For sanitization against XSS its generally better to save raw HTML in database without modification and sanitize at the time of output/display.output/display.

Answer 2

$this->data = Sanitize::clean($this->data, array('encode' => false) solved the problem. i agree with what Jamal Aziz/Cakephp says