OK, so I tried setting recursive to two again (didn't work earlier) and it worked!
Is there a better method to do this for future reference as it seems to place a bit of a load of the database... On May 15, 4:12 pm, number9 <xpozit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for this newbish question, I've searched for hours trying to > resolve this with no joy so would appreciate it if you could point me > in the right direction. > > I'm trying to setup a simple website (my first cakephp project, having > become OKish at PHP/MYSQL). > > Basically there are three models so far, posts, categories and sites > (all of the databases follow cake naming conventions, with id as PK, > name and _id for FKs. > > Posts belong to categories. > > Posts also belong to sites. > > Categories, and sites have one post. > > I have used cake bake to generate the controllers and views. /posts/ > works great, and it shows everything by name, the "add" works great in > terms of the relationships. > > The problem I am having is, when I go to /categories/, it brings up > posts under that category and the "category" and "site" are showing up > as numbers rather than "name" (in the view they are category_id, and > site_id). I can get the category name to show up OK (because I think > that table is mapped). > > What I don't understand is why the name is not showing in place of the > _id like everwhere else. How can I output database fields in another > model. It is probably something really simple, but I'm getting used to > the cake way of thinking. > > Is it that the relationship is wrong? The query at the bottom shows > the "names" are being selected. > > Thanks in advance --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
