Nice trick to toggle your Model field in CakePHP

This little trick will allow you toggle any field, for example ‘status’ which can be either 0 or 1…

Add this little function to your model or better yet, app model:

Use Sanitize::html() class in the views

Update (9/16/2008): As some people pointed out it’s easier to use the h() method defined in basics.php of the core, it achieves the same basic goal, but since Sanitize class has other methods and purposes, I’m gong to leave this as an informational example and…

Use Set::merge() to modify the $paginate property

Let’s say you have a Posts controller, where you’ll need to paginate some posts in various actions.
You might have some “generic settings” as the manual recommends in your $paginate variable similar to this: