You can skip the App::import step completely. Your models are already
associated, so $this->Product is already accessible. In fact,
App::import doesn't do anything, it works like require_once(), you
would still have to manually instantiate the imported model class
yourself (i.e. App::import will not create $this->Product for you,
you'd have to do $this->Product = new Product() yourself).
Hence your solution is already not bad, isn't it? You could even do it
from the controller anytime:
$this->Manufacturer->Product->find('count', ...);
On 22 Sep 2008, at 01:41, ORCC wrote:
>
> I have a Manufacturer model having many Products. In order to return
> the number of Products of a Manufacturer I wrote the following method
> in Manufacturer:
>
> function countProducts() {
> App::import('Model','Product');
> $condition = Array('manufacturer_id' => $this->id)
> return $this->Product->find('count',Array('conditions' =>
> $condition));
> }
>
> I would like to know if there is some way of getting the count of
> associated records without importing the associated model, but
> performing a recursive count.
>
>
> >
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