One of the neet features of CakePHP's scaffolding is that it automatically populates your foreign key (belongsTo, hasAndBelongsToMany) fields in your forms.

Lets take a look at a simple example to illustrate this:

app/models/article.php:

class Article extends AppModel {
	var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
		"Tag"
	);
}

app/models/tag.php:

Next Wednesday (ironically April 1st) I'll be doing a short (30 minute) presentation about the CakePHP framework to the good people at Sheffield GeekUp.

This is the first time I've ever done a 'proper' (ie. one that was planned and prepared) presentation and as you might expect I'm a bit jittery.