habtm

Simple Auth with Users HABTM Groups in CakePHP

In almost every project I need to setup some sort of login, and usually it requires group access to certain data depending on different criteria.

For example I may have groups Admin+Member and I want Members to only be able to see other Users Profiles if the other Profile is active.

Working with HABTM Form Data in CakePHP

I would like to document several speedy ways I have of working with HABTM data.