scraping / preg_match_all / ->beginner in cakephp

Hi all.
I'm totally newbie to CakePhp.

I have a problem with some preg_math_all function. Let me explain you.

This is what I want to do :

I'm doing a kind of personnal bookmark "software". Something very
easy.
But I can't achieve it. Too bad.

I want to manage my bookmarks by category.

This is how I'd explain : "A category hasMany bookmarks".

A bookmark is composed of a url, a "created" field, a title.

So here's my 1st problem. I do not encounter a bug or anything. I just
don't know how to "say" that in Cakephp language.

I want a field in which I can "paste" some urls, and it "recognizes
it" and add it to the database. It's a way of importing a lot of
bookmarks at a time.

In procedural PHP, I would have no pb to do that. But I try to take
resolutions for this new year : doing some CLEAR code that's why I
started with cake php.

So in procedural, I would have done something like this :

1. explode the $_POST field using "\r\n".
2. for each line in the array, explode it again with ";"
3. for each line, create a MySQL query using the correct cells, and
bulk import it into the database.
4. et voilà !

But here, what must I do ? I thought about creating a function import
() in my controller.
But then ? how to tell cakephp : bulk import it into the database ?

My 2nd problem : how can I "count" how many bookmarks there are in my
category ?
I tried this but it doesn't work. When I debug $nbBookmarks, it's not
giving me the right figure.

class CategoriesController extends AppController {

var $name = 'Categories';
var $hasMany = 'Bookmark';

function index() {
$this->set('Categories', $this->Category->find('all'));
}

function view($id = null) {
$this->Category->id = $id;
$this->set('Category', $this->Category->read());

$q = $this->Category->find('first',array( 'conditions' => array
('Category.id'=>$id) ));
$this->set('Bookmarks',$q);

$nbBookmarks = $this->Category->find('count', array('conditions' =>
array('Category.id' => $id)));
$this->set('nbBookmarks',$nbBookmarks);
}

Sorry for my bad english mates, I'm french.

Thanks again for your help people !

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