Has anyone looked into this further? I'm finding this very frustrating. It just makes sense to have associations nested, but I do not understand for the life of me why this doesn't happen for the root model item.
Frank Weindel On Tuesday, May 4, 2010 4:26:12 AM UTC-4, Roland B wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to change the structure of data returned by a model's > find call? Or should I use a different call? IMHO, the default seems > to be inconsistent in the way it handles associations: > > Given this model: > //--------------------------------------- > class Querycategory extends AppModel > { > var $recursive = 10; > var $hasMany = array( > 'Querycategory' => array('order' => 'name ASC'), > 'Querygroup' => array('order' => 'name ASC')); > } > //--------------------------------------- > > A call to $this->Querycategory->find('all') yields something like > this: > > Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [Querycategory] => Array > ( > [id] => 70 > [querycategory_id] => 34 > [0] => Array > ( > [id] => 71 > [querycategory_id] => 70 > [Querygroup] => Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [id] => 43 > [querycategory_id] => 71 > ) > ) > ) > ) > [Querygroup] => Array > ( > ) > ) > ) > > A Querygroup belonging to the Root-Querycategory is at the same level > as the root node and it is called Querygroup. > A Querygroup belonging to a child category is inside that child node > and it is called Querygroup. > A Querycategory belonging to any other category is inside its parent > and unnamed, unless there is also a Querygroup at the same level: then > it is called 'Querycategory' > > I would prefer: > Querygroup is always contained in it's "parent", always being called > 'Querygroup'. > Querycategory is always contained in its "parent", always being called > 'Querycategory'. > > Is there a "standard way" to achieve this? > > Using cake-1.2. > > > Thank you very much in advance, > > Roland > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to cake...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > -- 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.