Hi all,

I got a few lines of codes in a Model in cakePHP 1.26:

function beforeSave() { 
        $this->data['User']['pswd'] = md5($raw['User']['pswd']);              
         return true;
                         } // this beforeSave() works

The code above has been tested and it is working in my database.
Yet, I am not sure if I can understand it well,
so, I re-wrote the code in other way, and it just failed to work then.

 function beforeSave() { 
            $raw=$this->data;       
            $raw['User']['pswd'] = md5($raw['User']['pswd']);                    
             return true;
                             } // this beforeSave() failed to work

Why the second method can not work?