Cakephp Autoconvert find() fields?

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Published on 2011-01-15T04:49:14Z Indexed on 2011/01/15 4:53 UTC
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In cake php I can grab a model's fields by using the find() method. What if I wish to apply a transformation function to the fields? Is there a way to directly accomplish this task?

Suppose I have a model called RaceTime with the fields racerId and timeMillis

 RaceTime
+------------+
| Field      |
+------------+
| id         |
| racerId    |
| timeMillis |
+------------+

timeMillis is an int specifying how long the race took in milliseconds. Obviously saying a race took 15651 milliseconds isn't very useful to a human reader, and I would wish to convert this to a human readable format.

Is there a way to accomplish this directly in find()?

Or is the only option to loop through the results after find() finishes?

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