Othman Ouahbi has a very nice example on his blog on creating automatic updating select-boxes with Ajax.
If you change the first select-box, it updates the next selectbox accordingly.
Ahsanul Bari created a nice list of links to articles on the use of Ajax in CakePHP.
Some of the parts covered are:
Getting Started
AutoComplete
Ajax Redirect
Ajax Validation
Encoding
Ajax Uploader
So head over to Ahsan’s Laboratory and distover how to implement some nice ajax stuff in your web-app!