One of the things about Cake that I'm not so hot about is having to
give up (mostly) writing SQL. For some people, that's a feature, I
guess.
Anyway, don't fight the framework ;-) Do your find() on Posts,
grabbing Comments along with them. When iterating over them in the
view, you can simply do a sizeof() on your array. eg.
this is your $posts var set in the controller:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[Post] => Array
(
[id] => 1
[created] => ...
...
[Comment] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] ...
[1] => Array
(
[id] ...
foreach($posts as $post)
{
?>
<h3><?= $post['title'] ?></h3>
<h5>(<?= sizeof($post['Comment']) ?> comments)</h5>
...
If you're using Bindable behavior you can restrict the SELECT to just
grabbing the Comment IDs to save some time/memory, etc.
Pagination isn't a factor in any of this (though I may have
misunderstood your question).
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Andrew Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This may be silly since there is a better to do this I'm sure, but is
> there a way to count the number of items in a subselect on pagination?
> Or is there a way to count the number of items that are linked in a
> hasMany relationship. i.e. can you output the number of comments that
> are associated with a post in a blog?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
> ~Andrew Allen
>
> >
>
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