public function savePostTopics($postId, $topics)
{
// Explode the topics by comma, so we have an array to run through
$topics = explode(',', $topics);
// Array for collecting all the data
$collection = array();
foreach($topics as $topic)
{
// Trim it so remove unwanted white spaces in the beginning and the end.
$topic = trim($topic);
// Make it all lowercase for consistency of tag names
$topic = strtolower($topic);
// Check if we already have a topic like this
$controlFind = $this->find(
'first',
array(
'conditions' => array(
'title' => $topic
),
'recursive' => -1
)
);
// No record found
if(!$controlFind)
{
$this->create();
if(
!$this->save(
array(
'title' => $topic
)
)
)
{
// If only one saving fails we stop the whole loop and method.
return false;
}
else
{
$temp = array(
'TopicPost' => array(
'topic_id' => $this->id,
'post_id' => $postId
)
);
}
}
else
{
$temp = array(
'TopicPost' => array(
'topic_id' => $controlFind['Topic']['id'],
'post_id' => $postId
)
);
}
$collection[] = $temp;
}
return $this->TopicPost->saveMany($collection, array('validate' => false));
}