A few ideas on how I usually solve this problem:
1) Fetching a record from the database automatically gets you all the
related models as well, presuming Model::$recursive is high enough.
$this->Category->find("Category.id = $id") will get you an array that
looks like this:
array(
[Category] => array(...),
[Link] => array( /* all links in this category */ )
)
2) If you need Links that are in Category 1, 2 or 3, either do the
above and pick all the Link entries you need (Set::extract() works
great), or, depending on how interconnected your models are and what
you need to fetch:
$categories = $this->Category->find('all', array('conditions' =>
array('id' => array(1, 2, 3))));
$link_ids = Set::extract('/Link/id', $categories);
// link_ids now holds all ids of all Links in Categories 1, 2 and 3
$this->Link->find('all', array('conditions' => array('Link.id' =>
$link_ids)));
Take your pick, limit recursiveness and/or containability as you see
fit to limit the overhead.
Chrs,
Dav
On 2 Sep 2008, at 15:43, Predominant wrote:
>
> Hey David,
>
> I was wondering if you could drop me the SQL for your database (just
> the tables involved), as well as the models and the final controller
> code.
> Currently I am dealing the the same example, only with differing model
> names. I wanted to check with you regarding your database structure,
> and see how you ended up with things.
>
> Very interested to hear from you.
>
> Cheers,
> Graham
>
>
> On Aug 22, 2:15 am, David Yell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I finally managed to get this working using a model bind. It's a bit
>> messy and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me just yet. I
>> was basically changing things and looking at the sql. For anyone
>> looking for this type of functionality, I achieved it using this in
>> my
>> controller.
>>
>> <?php
>> function index() {
>> $this->checkRole(array(1,3));
>>
>> $this->Link->recursive = 1;
>>
>> $this->Link->bindModel(
>> array('belongsTo' => array(
>> 'CategoriesLink' => array(
>> 'className'
>> => 'CategoriesLink',
>>
>> 'foreignKey' => 'id',
>> )
>> )),
>> array('belongsTo' => array(
>> 'Category' => array(
>> 'className'
>> => 'Category',
>>
>> 'foreignKey' => 'categories_link_id',
>> )
>> ))
>> );
>>
>> if(isset($this->params['named']['category'])){
>> $data = $this->paginate('Link',
>> array('CategoriesLink.category_id'=>
>> $this->params['named']['category']));
>> } else {
>> $data = $this->paginate('Link',
>> array('Link.status_id'=>'1'));
>> }
>>
>> die(pr($data));
>>
>> $this->set('links', $data_mod);
>>
>> $categories = $this->Link->Category->find('list');
>> $this->set(compact('categories'));}
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> On Aug 20, 12:34 pm, David Yell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Does this mean that 1.2 still can't filter a result set by a related
>>> model over habtm?
>>
>>> I've been trying to filter my Links by Category to no avail today.
>>
>>> Link habtm Category
>>> Category habtm Link
>>
>>> $this->set('links', $this->paginate('Link', array('Category.id'=>
>>> $this-
>>
>>>> data['Link']['category_id'])));
>>
>>> Which fails because CakePHP won't join the related model in the
>>> query.
>>> Will I be reduced to creating a Model for the join CategoriesLink
>>> and
>>> then writing my own query to grab data from it? It seems
>>> determined to
>>> do two separate queries.
>>
>>> The only other way I could think of, which I haven't tried yet,
>>> was to
>>> use /category/5/$link_id which might work, but I assumed would
>>> suffer
>>> the same fate in the sql of missing a join. Or should I be making an
>>> on-the-fly bind using a belongsTo association to force the join,
>>> which
>>> would then pickup my conditions?
>>
>>> I have read the CakeBaker article (http://cakebaker.42dh.com/
>>> 2007/10/17/pagination-of-data-from-a-habtm-relationship/), but that
>>> looks to be for 1.1 as my existing habtm works for reading and
>>> saving,
>>> but not for when you want to adjust the resultset using a field from
>>> the related model.
>>
>>> Idea's or links would be appreciated!
> >
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