Is City a hasOne or belongsTo relationship? If so, and your find code is
using contain or recursive to include those in the results, you can do this:
$this->Paginator->sort('Where Written', 'City.name');
Check your data and SQL queries to see if it's joined that way.
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4:29:26 PM UTC-7, Hill180 wrote:
>
> Trying to use the paginator in the view
>
> I have an Author who is has a Book and where the "book" was written (
> book_id.name, city_id.name)
> Author sort works, title sort work, but not the sort for city_id. I can
> sort by the id, but obviously this won't work because
> the id has nothing to do with the name of the city.
>
>
>
> <th><?php echo $this->Paginator->sort('Author', 'name'); ?></th>
> <th><?php echo $this->Paginator->sort('Book', 'title.name'); ?></th>
> <th><?php echo $this->Paginator->sort('Where Written', 'title.city_id');
> ?></th> (sorts, but the names are not sorted because
> it is using the id)
>
> need something like this
> <th><?php echo $this->Paginator->sort('Where Written', 'title.city_id.name
> '); ?></th> //does not work.
>
> Is there a way to get this to work, or is it a customer pagination?
>
> thanks..
> j
>
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