Re: Does every model need a "name" field? Why?

Not strictly accurate - you do not need to have either a name or title field in your table, but they have their uses. Cake can use a 'name' or 'title' field to automatically populate lists and such. Having said that, you can override it with var $displayField in your model. See: http://book.cakephp.org/view/1014/Titles for more info.

I prefer to stick to a name field as Cake drives convention.

Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit

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On 26 Aug 2010, at 09:23, psybear83 wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm just digging into CakePHP and continue an application of my
> previous co-worker. He told me that every model needs a "name" field
> in the database. Why's that? I did a search on Google but could't find
> an answer...
>
> Thanks
> Josh
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