On Apr 24, 2:48 am, 0x20h <k...@informatik.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > Am 22.04.2012 20:24, schrieb kdubya: > > > [...] > > This can be written as a find(): > > $total = $this->CustomerPurchases->find('first', > > array('conditions'=>array('customerbill_id'=>$billid), > > 'fields'=>array('sum(customerpurchases.amount) as total')); > > I think something like > > $total = $this->CustomerPurchases->field('SUM(amount)', > array('customerbill_id' => $billid)); > > should do the trick
yes, but it still returns an array... what i want is to return a float value.. -- 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