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I needed a quick dynamic way to remove numerous associations I had in recent application. I decided the best to do that was through unbindAssociation(), so I made it.

This code was adapted from expects(), a function developed by Tom O'Reilly & expanded by Mariano Iglesias. As mentioned below I didn't want to maintain lists of models, so I adapted the code to remove associations instead.

With CakePHP you can easily create views from database models. At times, however, you need to output your database model as a spreadsheet file. In this article I'll show how you can use PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer class to generate an Excel spreadsheet with CakePHP.

As I have developed my CakePHP application, I have discovered new and useful functions every day - and today I want to talk to you about caching, and how easily it can be implemented. When I implemented it on my front page, I went from having 7 database queries down to 1.