Difficult to be precise withhout seeing the table structure, but I
would use Cake to validate the fields, i.e. check that the values are
valid, then use PHP/Cake to see if there is already a corresponding
entry. If there is return an error state.

On 2 Jul, 09:49, kaushik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to give validation to prevent duplicate entry in category
> table.
>
> Now my model is like that:-
>
> class category extends AppModel
> {
>  var $name = 'Category';
>  var $primaryKey = 'categoryId';
>  var $validate = array(
>        'categoryName'  => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
>    );
>
> }
>
> the controller for addition function:-
>
> function admin_add()
> {
>   if (!empty($this->data['Category']))
>   {
>         if ($this->Category->save($this->data))
>           $this->flash('Your note has been added.','../categories/',5);
>   }
>
> }
>
> what i have to do? Please help me.
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