cakePHP - modified field not updating - cakephp

Question

Any ideas on how to debug a modified field that is not being updated? The created field works fine.
I'm not sure what code you would need to look at so let me know!
Thanks

Answer 1

Like Anh Pham said, the modified and created field need to be DATETIME and they also need to default to NULL, as explained in the CakePHP book about the subject.

Answer 2

Most likely you are overwriting the field, unset the field from the object before saving it like this:
unset($user['User']['modified']);
Now you can save it:
$this->User->save($user);

Answer 3

You should try checking if you didn't use
$this->ModelName->read(NULL, $id);
before saving your data, if you think you didn't - double check it

Answer 4

That field should be named 'modified' with 'datetime' type. Cake should update the field automatically for you. If you want to check, just query it, or look into the database.

Answer 5

I got the same problem today and found out the modified field is only updated if any changes have been made, otherwise the field will not be touched.

Answer 6

The problem might also arise if you use manual update queries. The field is updated only when you use Cake's own functions.

Answer 7

In AppModel.php, just write the following code.
public function beforeSave($options = array()) {
parent::beforeSave();
if (isset($this->data[$this->alias]['modified'])) {
unset($this->data[$this->alias]['modified']);
}
if (isset($this->data[$this->alias]['created'])) {
unset($this->data[$this->alias]['created']);
}
}
This will work for all models. But we can do that for individual MODELS too.
Since we have used parent::beforeSave(); as our first line therefore this can be overwritten in each individual MODEL.
Thanks to inheritance.