Cake Php Read function to retrieve result as 1-Dimensional array - cakephp

Question

Cake Php Read function to retrieve result as simple array
$result = $this->Model->read('id, name, title', $id);
It will result as
Array
(
[Model] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => test
[title] => New Head title
)
)
It there any way to retrieve result array directly from query as below
Array
(
[id] => 1
[name] => test
[title] => New Head title
)
Without using any temp storage of a variable.

Answer 1

Just run the result through a Set::extract call, like this:
$result = $this->Model->read('id, name, title', $id);
$result = Set::extract('/Model', $result);
Set is a very powerful class, I suggest you read on it. :)
Cheers.

Answer 2

CakePHP purity aside (agree with other posters though)
Is find('list') what you are looking for?
$result = $this->Model->find('list', array('fields' => array('id', 'name', 'title'), 'conditions' => array('id' => $id), 'recursive' => 0 ));

Answer 3

Unless you're going to hack the Cake core, Cake will always internally return the results using the extra model key. So "without using any temp storage of a variable" is pretty much impossible, if you mean this in terms of "speed optimization" (in quotes, because it hardly makes any difference).
You can make it work simply with:
$result = current($this->Model->read('id, name, title', $id));
You could override the model's read method so it always does this internally (not recommended, it'll come to bite you one day). You could do so in the AppModel to have this behavior globally.