While developing a registration form for a client I had the following problem: This form needed to be able to grab multi-record values for one table. In this case I had a form where a person could sign up more than one participant. (Using CakePHP standard form names) echo $form->input('Participant.0.first_name'); echo $form->input('Participant.0.last_name'); echo $form->input('Participant.1.first_