title: How to trace CakePHP's inner workflow
body: <h3>Short description</h3>
  
  <p>I'm getting used to CakePHP right now and am wondering about how to get more debug-information about what is happening inside the framework.</p>
  
  <h3>Let me please explain my situation a little more detailed</h3>
  
  <p>As you know CakePHP does a lot for you without putting you into the need to write additional code. One example is the handling of models.
  I just created a model User and added validation-rules (no other methods). As described in the API methods like save will just work.
  After that I created the needed controller and view to add a new user. When I try to add a user from the view I just receive the flash-message <code>The user could not be created. Please, try again.</code> No validation-violations are flashed.</p>
  
  <p>I also did set the debug-level to 2: <code>Configure::write('debug', 2);</code> but do not receive any errors. The <code>error.log</code> inside \tmp\logs is also empty.</p>
  
  <p>I really do want to learn how to solve those issues in the future.</p>
  
  <p><strong>So what else can I do to debug / display inner processes of cake?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much for your help!</p>