How do I update 1 field in CakePHP?

Question

I want a function to alter one field, "is_featured" to 1(true) of Event model of given ID, to mark an event as "Featured".

class EventsController extends AppController{ function feature($id){} } 

Answer 1

you can use saveField to do this for example

$this->Event->id = $id; $this->Event->saveField('is_featured', true); 

Answer 2

You can perform update in one field by two ways:

    $this->Model->id=$id;     $this->Model->saveField("fieldName","value"); 

OR

    $this->Model->updateAll(array("fieldName"=>"value"),array("fieldName"=>"condition")); 

in second example, first array will update the value in defined field and second array defines the "WHERE" condition