CakePHP Lookupable Behavior

A CakePHP behavior to easily look up the id’s of records or create them if they do not exist yet. Useful when working with lots of lookup / status tables.

Installing

1. Copy lookupable.php to app/models/behaviors/
2. Open / create app/app_model.php and add the following:

class AppModel extends Model{
	var $actsAs = array('Lookupable');
}

Usage / Docs

To lookup the id of lets say your ‘Admin’ group, you can simply do:

$group_id = $this->Group->lookup('Admin');

If the group does not exist yet, the behavior will automatically create it and return the id of the newly created record.

Known Bugs

None