This little trick will allow you toggle any field, for example ‘status’ which can be either 0 or 1…
Add this little function to your model or better yet, app model:
Update 1: Thanks to Kalt for the sound improvement to the original method
Update 2: And thanks to rafaelbandeira3 for improving it even further
(Daniel Hofstetter pointed out that instead of ‘1-‘ you could use the ‘NOT’ operator)
Now in your controller you could do:
$this->User->toggleField('status', $id);
Of course, we assume that we are dealing with only 0 or 1 as status types.