I agree that there are better single query methods in pure SQL, but my recommendation keeps it in a Cake stylee (rather than using $model->query). I'd be happy to be put right, but even if you did it using joins in a Cake find, I think it'd still execute two queries.
Jeremy Burns Class Outfit http://www.classoutfit.com On 23 Aug 2011, at 19:25, Robert Maiolo wrote: > I'd try an outer join > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote: > although this will get quite slow with more and more ids and might > consume a lot of memory some day > depending on the size a subquery might some day be more suitable. but > until then this 2-query will work fine. > > > On 23 Aug., 13:44, Dwayne Hanekamp <dwaynehanek...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That worked, awesome! > > > > Thanks so much Jeremy! > > > > Dwayne > > > > On 23 aug, 12:48, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <jeremybu...@classoutfit.com> wrote: > > > Do a find to get all the ids of the badges in the users_badges table. > > > Then do $this->Badge->find('all', array('conditions' => array('NOT' > > > array('Badge.id' => $badgeIds)))); > > > > > Seehttp://book.cakephp.org/view/1030/Complex-Find-Conditionsandsearch for > > > 'NOT IN' on the page. > > > > > Jeremy Burns > > > Class Outfit > > > > >http://www.classoutfit.com > > > > > On 23 Aug 2011, at 11:43, Dwayne Hanekamp wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've been trying to work this out for the last couple of hours but it > > > > isn't working. > > > > I'm building an achievement system. So i have two tables: > > > > > > Users_Badges and Badges (and ofc much more but they don't matter) > > > > > > What i want is to make a find condition which only selects the badges > > > > that don't > > > > exist in the Users_Badges table. > > > > > > I hope you all can help me. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Dwayne > > > > > > -- > > > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video > > > > Tutorialshttp://tv.cakephp.org > > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organdhelp > > > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > -- > 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 > > > -- > 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 -- 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
