Checking Consistency Before Saving

I have a table of students with foreign keys of province_id and a country_id. And the table of provinces has a foreign key of country_id just like the students table.

I want to make sure that a student doesn't get saved with a province that doesn't match the country. I put this into my Student model and it works, but I want to know if I'm following best practices.

Can anyone suggest a better way to do this?

public function beforeValidate(array $options = array()) {

if ($this->data['Student']['province_id']) {

$p = new Province();

$this->set('province', $p->findById($this->data['Student']['province_id']));

if ($this->data['Student']['province']['Province']['country_id'] != $this->data['Student']['country_id']) {

$this->invalidate('province_id', 'Invalid province for the selected country');

return false;

}

}

return true;

}

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