Anja, Spent a bit more time with containable. No answer but if it's any consolation but I can't get any proper result with a HABTM even without an alias. It could be I'm still misunderstanding some detail... The two away table just comes pouring in no matter what I've tried.
Don On May 16, 1:31 am, Anja Liebermann <anja.lieberm...@platinnetz.de> wrote: > Hi Don, > > thanks for your reply, but the brackt was set correctly, PostAuthor > belongsto LastPost, not to Group directly. > > What really worries me is that all the members are fetched. They belong > via HABTM to the Group, but if I don't mention them in my containment > statement they shouln't be fetched. Correct? > > Anja > > Am 15.05.2011 04:29, schrieb dreamingmind: > > > > > > > > > Anja, > > > There is a parenthesis misplacement in your sample code. If that > > exists in your real code it's probably your problem. > > > The array for LastPost doesn't get its closing paren until after > > PostAuthor. Here's the correction: > > > $containment = array( > > 'GroupOwner' => array( > > 'fields' => array('GroupOwner.nickname', 'GroupOwner.id') > > ), > > 'LastPost' => array( > > 'fields' => array('LastPost.user_id', 'LastPost.created'), > > ), > > 'PostAuthor' => array( > > 'fields' => array( > > 'PostAuthor.id', > > 'PostAuthor.firstname', > > 'PostAuthor.nickname', > > 'PostAuthor.lastname' > > ) > > ) > > ); > > > Regards > > Don > > > On May 14, 7:05 am, acl68<c...@anjaliebermann.de> wrote: > >> Hello everybody, > > >> I try to use a containable search in a CakePHP legacy project using Cake > >> 1.2. I have often uses containable, but never togeterh with aliases. So > >> no idea if that might be the poblem ore something else. > > >> The model relations are as follows: > > >> Group__ > >> hasMany Members alias Users > >> belongsTo > >> |__ GroupOwner alias User > >> |__ LastPost alias ForumPost > >> |___belongsTo > >> |__ PostAuthor alias > >> User > > >> As you can see we use model aliases. > > >> I have the following containment array: > >> $containment = array( > >> 'GroupOwner' =array( > >> 'fields'=array('GroupOwner.nickname', > >> 'GroupOwner.id') > >> ), > >> 'LastPost' =array( > >> 'fields'=array( > >> 'LastPost.user_id', > >> 'LastPost.created'), > >> 'PostAuthor' =array( > >> 'fields' =array( > >> 'PostAuthor.id', > >> 'PostAuthor.firstname', > >> 'PostAuthor.nickname', > >> 'PostAuthor.lastname') > >> ) > >> ) > >> ); > > >> The strange behaviour is that I get all model data on the second level > >> e.g. all my GroupMembers which I don't want, but not my PostAuthor which > >> I want. > > >> If I add a field condition to my find e.g.: > >> $groups = $this-Group-find('all', array('contain' =$containment, > >> 'fields' =array('GroupOwner.id'), 'limit' =2)); > > >> my result looks like following: > >> GroupOwner (Array, 5 elements) > >> id (String, 2 characters ) 14 > >> nickname (String, 11 characters ) Helfenstein > >> avatar (Array, 4 elements) > >> is_online (Integer) 0 > >> name (String, 12 characters ) Helfenstein > >> LastPost (Array, 3 elements) > >> user_id (String, 6 characters ) 878781 > >> created (String, 10 characters ) 1237332851 > >> id (String, 10 characters ) 1009713631 > >> GroupCategory (Array, 0 elements) > >> Member (Array, 0 elements) > >> Tags (Array, 0 elements) > > >> so Members are still there, though luckily empty, but still no PostAuthor. > >> My > >> complete Information from the "Group" model is missing, too > > >> *sigh* > > >> Has anybody an idea what might be the problem? > > >> Of course var $actsAs = array('Containable'); is set in the app_model.php > > >> I find this a very strange behaviour (no pun intended). > > >> Thanks in advance for any help! > > >> Anja > > > > anja_liebermann.vcf > < 1KViewDownload -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php