My app has the following: Genus hasMany Species Species hasMany CommonName
and the corresponding belongsTo relationships as well. Each of these models has a name field, and Genus and Species have several other fields. Say for example I have a Species Acer rubrum. This Species belongsTo Genus Acer and has a CommonName Red Maple. I want my users to be able to search the database for "Red Maple" and get as a result Species Acer rubrum (with the CommonName Red Maple highlighted to show that's what it matched. I can do this already. Yay. However if I have another Species with CommonName Bored Maple, I want to display this result too, but lower in the list than Red Maple. Since Bored comes before Red alphabetically I can't just order by CommonName.name to get the result I want. So what I know I could do is a series of finds: 1) Find exact match: CommonName.name => $searchStr 2) Find starting match: CommonName.name LIKE => $searchStr . '%' 3) Find internal match: CommonName.name LIKE => '%' . $searchStr . '%' And then merge them into my results array. However, this seems very inefficient. Is there a way I can use cake's find() function to do this all in one go while ordering them in order of best match? I have thought about this for quite some time and done some research but I can't seem to find any clever solution. I might be able to do a custom query with a bunch of SELECTs as above combined with UNION or something, but this would be a pretty complex query and not really much more efficient than what I already know how to do. Thanks in advance any genius here who has a solution! -Clay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
