Retrieving Your Data¶ As stated before, one of the roles of the Model layer is to get data from multiple types of storage. The CakePHP Model class comes with some functions that will help you search for this data, sort it, paginate it, and filter it. The most common function you will use in models is Model::find() find¶ find(string $type = 'first', array $params = array()) Find is the multifunctio