4 hours later, still can't figure this out..... I've found that...
$this->Lesson->Piece->findAll(array('Piece.id'=>'1')); will return some Lesson info... but I was under the impression $this->Lesson->Piece->findAll() was incorporated in $this->Lesson->findAll() ? On Oct 25, 12:21 pm, EVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on day two of trying to figure this out, we'll see if this helps. > > I've got three Models. Lessons belongsTo Parts and Lessons HABTM > Pieces (and vice-versa) > > Here's the model definition for Lessons, pretty straightforward. > > class Lesson extends AppModel { > var $name = 'Lesson'; > var $belongsTo = array( > 'Part' => array( > 'className' => 'Part', > 'foreignKey' => 'part_id' > ) > ); > > var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array( > 'Piece' => array( > 'className' => 'Piece', > 'joinTable' => 'lessons_pieces', > 'foreignKey' => 'lesson_id', > 'associationForeignKey'=> 'piece_id', > 'unique' => true > ) > ); > > } > > The problem comes when trying to use findAll to locate a lesson > associated with a particular piece. This is the findAll command I'm > using with the conditions array.... > > $resultArray = $this->Lesson->findAll(array('Piece.id' => '1', > 'Lesson.part_id' => '2')); > > Looking at the SELECT query generated by Cake, I see that, unlike the > parts table, the pieces table is essntially ignored by findAll even > though there's a HABTM association, thus the WHERE part of the query, > where I ask for Piece.id, generates an error. > > Query: SELECT `Lesson`.`id`, `Lesson`.`created`, `Lesson`.`modified`, > `Lesson`.`title`, `Lesson`.`issue`, `Lesson`.`part_id`, `Part`.`id`, > `Part`.`part` FROM `lessons` AS `Lesson` LEFT JOIN `parts` AS `Part` > ON (`Lesson`.`part_id` = `Part`.`id`) WHERE `Piece`.`id` = 1 AND > `Lesson`.`part_id` = 2 > > I'm confused as to how I might search for HABTM model associations via > a simple method such as findAll... I feel this might be related to > the following ---> https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1209 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---