If you have author's id then to find all books for that author
ordered/sorted by categories, you can also do,
Category->findAll("Book.author_id = $author_id", null, 'Category.name ASC');
On 10/19/07, BoSc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> You're right, in Cake lingo this is called HABTM, in normal database
> ERD's they both have a Has Many relationship with eachother....
> ofcourse I have modeled this with HABTM, but thanks for your
> correction!
>
> Your solution to the order problem is 'spot on', actually what I was
> looking for! I didn't knew that this was possible from within the
> model.
>
> GriGri, thanks for elaborating on the FindByFieldname() function, I
> was using findBySlug() for ages, and was already wondering by this
> wasn't in the API... LOL.... just some more Cake magic indeed!
>
> On Oct 18, 11:30 am, "Amit Badkas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 10/18/07, BoSc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I've got 3 tables with a 1:n relationship:
> >
> > > - author (has many books)
> > > ^
> > > |
> > > |
> > > V
> > > - books (belongs to categories) (has many authors)
> >
> > - I think you made a mistake here, actual relationships may be author
> HABTM
> > books and books HABTM authors
> >
> > |
> >
> >
> >
> > > |
> > > V
> >
> > > - categories (has many books)
> >
> > > What I would like to do on one page, is show a categorized view of all
> > > books by a specific author. The problem lies in the fact that each
> > > category and each book also has some kind of sorting involved, which
> > > states at what place in a category a book should be shown...
> >
> > > >From which Point of View should I query this, and am I able to
> > > implement this in 1 query?
> >
> > > What I would like to end up with is the following array
> >
> > > array
> > > category 2
> > > book 1
> > > name
> > > blabla
> > > book 3
> > > name
> > > blabla
> > > book 2
> > > name
> > > blabla
> > > category 1
> > > book 4
> > > name
> > > blabla
> > > book 6
> > > name
> > > blabla
> > > book 5
> > > name
> > > blabla
> >
> > > The problem is, when I use findAll on Category, I'm not able to choose
> > > how Cake should order the Books. Any workarounds?
> >
> > - Use Category->findAll(null, null, 'Category.name ASC'); and in
> category
> > model, define hasMany relation with book like, $hasMany = array('Book'
> =>
> > array('order' => 'Book.name ASC'));
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Amit
> >
> >
> http://amitrb.wordpress.com/http://cheesecake-photoblog.org/http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/author/amitbadkas
>
>
> >
>
--
Regards,
Amit
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