Dear Ciul, As *Reuben* said HABTM generally doesn't do a join, but if you want to joins then you will need to set up an extra table in the database to handle this relationship.
For more details you can visit here - http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/associations-linking-models-together.html#hasandbelongstomany-habtm Cheers!.. Saran On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Reuben <reuben.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > The HABTM generally doesn't do a join. You would only use a straight find > when you have conditions for only one of the models. > > Alternatives are to use contains, or use join to explicitly define the > join and the join conditions. Whilst contains is handy, I usually end up > going with the join clause, because it matches mostly closely with what I'd > do, if I was writing straight SQL. > > Regards > Reuben Helms > > > On Thursday, 25 April 2013 02:47:31 UTC+10, Ciul wrote: > >> I'm having troubles to restrict a find operation based on a related model >> field within a hasAndBelongsToMany relationship. >> >> *// Wedding Model* >> *public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Guest');* >> * >> * >> *// Guest Model* >> *public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Wedding');* >> * >> * >> *Then, calling in Guest Controller:* >> * >> * >> *// GuestsController Controller* >> *$this->Guest->find('first', array(* >> * 'conditions' => array(* >> * ** **'Guest.email' => 'te...@test.com',* >> * ** **'Wedding.alias' => 'maria-wedding'* >> * **),* >> * **'recursive' => 1* >> *);* >> >> >> *ERROR:* >> >> Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'Wedding.alias' in 'where clause' >> >> *SQL Query: *SELECT `Guest`.`id`, `Guest`.`created`, `Guest`.`modified`, >> `Guest`.`name`, `Guest`.`email`, `Guest`.`enabled`, `Guest`.`confirmed` >> >> FROM `weddingshare`.`demo_guests` AS `Guest` WHERE `Guest`.`email` = ' >> te...@test.com' AND `Wedding`.`alias` = 'maria-wedding' LIMIT 1 >> >> I understand it is not event joining tables to make the request. >> >> Please, I'd appreciate any help. >> >> Regards >> > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
