Dieser Code kommt in das app_model.php

/**
     * Get Enum Values
     * Snippet v0.1.3
     * http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=112
     *
     * Gets the enum values for MySQL 4 and 5 to use in selectTag()
     */
    function getEnumValues($columnName=null, $respectDefault=false) {
        if ($columnName==null) { return array(); } //no field specified

        //Get the name of the table
        $db =& ConnectionManager::getDataSource($this->useDbConfig);
        $tableName = $db->fullTableName($this, false);

        //Get the values for the specified column (database and version specific, needs testing)
        $result = $this->query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM {$tableName} LIKE '{$columnName}'");

        //figure out where in the result our Types are (this varies between mysql versions)
        $types = null;
        if     ( isset( $result[0]['COLUMNS']['Type'] ) ) { $types = $result[0]['COLUMNS']['Type']; $default = $result[0]['COLUMNS']['Default']; } //MySQL 5
        elseif ( isset( $result[0][0]['Type'] ) )         { $types = $result[0][0]['Type']; $default = $result[0][0]['Default']; } //MySQL 4
        else   { return array(); } //types return not accounted for

        //Get the values
        $values = explode("','", preg_replace("/(enum)\('(.+?)'\)/","\\2", $types) );

        if($respectDefault){
                $assoc_values = array("$default"=>Inflector::humanize($default));
                foreach ( $values as $value ) {
                        if($value==$default){ continue; }
                        $assoc_values[$value] = Inflector::humanize($value);
                }
        }
        else{
                $assoc_values = array();
                foreach ( $values as $value ) {
                        $assoc_values[$value] = Inflector::humanize($value);
                }
        }

        return $assoc_values;

    } //end getEnumValues

In dem Controller holt man sich die Werte dann so:

$this->set('value', $this->Model->getEnumValues('field'));

und in der View kommt das hinein:

echo $form->input('value', array('options' => $kind, 'label' => 'value:'));