It depends, it depends on your use case. For instance if one may enter text into a huge textfield, maybe richtext for instance, its better to sanitize after READING it from the database, not upon writing (beforesave).
If you want to change things on the fly before validation its no problem. For instance if you require first and last name, and both do neither start nor end with whitespace, tab, linebreak but with some other character and are at least 3 letters long, you can strip those whitespaces (lets say with trim()) in beforeValidate. The result will also be that on validation issues the result in the form will be modified (while beforesave the modification is not visible to the user at any chance). There is no general rule where it is best to do do, beforeValidate, beforeSave, afterRead Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
