title: what is the meaning of recursive in cakephp?
body: <p>well, i have this line of code in the tutorial i am following. However, it did not provided me the clear explanation regarding recursive. I am a newbie in cakephp and searched about this "recursive". I hope somebody could provide me a layman's explanation of this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;Author-&gt;recursive = 1;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you </p>