Hi, On Sep 22, 5:28 pm, benr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a way for an admin to get get all the recent activity > across multiple content types in one large list. > > I have multiple tables containing different content types (subpages, > news, events, etc) all of which have similar fields (name, crated, > status, user_id). Is there a way to find all the most recent activity > from those tables and combine the results into one large list that is > sorted by created date? > > I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious that cake has already > built in or if I will just need to do an array merge or something.
As for there being a native cakephp to do it, I can't really tell. For complicated things, I tend to resort to plain SQL to let the DBMS handle (and optimize) the request. A single SQL request with UNION's and ORDER BY called by a query() call will fetch and order everything you need. There may be also some cleaner solutions with SQL "advanced" structures (views, ...) but I would need to check how that's supported in cake (it may also add a dependency on your DBMS). Of course, if someone as a simple cakephp-native method, I'd like to know too :-) Regards, -- Pierre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
