Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [ModelName] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 83
                    [field1] => value1
                    [field2] => value2
                    [field3] => value3
                )
        )
)

However, the saveAll function accepts data in the following format:

Array
(
    [Article] => Array(
        	[0] => Array
	        	(
                            [title] => title 1
                        )
	        [1] => Array
		        (
                            [title] => title 2
                        )
                )
)

The problem is that they’re reversed. One has the model name as the root key with an array of records inside and one has an array of model names with records.

There are a few ways to fix this, some even going so far as creating a new behavior or a new extended function of the model class.

Since this was a one-time use for me, I simply needed to switch the array around. The following code does just that:

$this->data = $this->Modelname->find('all');

$new_data = array();
foreach ($this->data as $row) {
	array_push($new_data, $row['Modelname']);
}
$this->data = array('Modelname'=>$new_data);

I’m not to happy about making a round peg fit into a round hole when both were designed by the same folks, but this at least solves the problem.

I finally just pulled the cakephp source from the github account. I knew from the comments in the cakephp release that it was from 1/16/2009, so I looked for any commits that occured that day.

I determined that 9f83e96 was the official tag before the release. Once you have the cakephp repository cloned to your local machine, it’s easy to simply checkout that specific commit.

$ git clone git://github.com/cakephp/cakephp1x.git
$ cd cakephp1x
$ git checkout 9f83e96

Voila! Depending on what you want to do with this code, you can simply zip it up and go or create a new git branch.

$ git checkout -b your-branch-name

The CakePHP team really needs to restore an archive with old releases, or tell me where they’ve hidden it.