Yes, a related model but in the form
Teacher -> belongsTo User -> hasOne Person
so that I need to order by Person.surname,Person.name..
I tried 'order' => array('Person.surname ASC') but got no results..
On 23 Ott, 01:04, jacmoe <jac...@mail.dk> wrote:
> What do you mean?
> A totally unrelated model, or ?
>
> var $paginate = array(
> 'fields' => array(all_fields_here),
> 'limit' => 15,
> 'order' => array(
> 'SomeModel.someField' => 'desc')
> );
>
> Works with whatever your model $belongsTo.
>
> If that's not what you mean, explain some more. :)
>
> On Oct 22, 7:49 pm, ark0n3 <nicolabeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Melanie
> > thanks for your kind reply.
> > I meant general sorting, not necessarily in the view, something like
> > SELECT * FROM User inner join Group order by Group.name
>
> > I think it's quite amazing such a basic feature could not be achieved
> > with CakePHP, a workaround has to exist (different from manually
> > sorting pagination results).
>
> > On 22 Ott, 16:33, Melanie Sommer <melanie-som...@mailinator.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi
> > > > does anyone know if it's possible to order by a contained fields? It
> > > > seems to me like a simple task but I'm unable to manage it.. I have a
> > > > User model associated with a Group field and I'd like to order User by
> > > > Group.name.
>
> > > Do you mean paginator function sort() ? There you simpy need to type
> > > $paginator->sort('Group','Group.name');
>
> > > This only works if Group is directly related to your user, by
> > > belongsTo for example. I did not manage to get it work with any models
> > > that are not directly related with the current model and noone was
> > > able to answer me this question by now.
>
> > > Here:http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/advanced-pagination-1-2
> > > is written:
> > > "Cake 1.2 is still in development. I feel obligated to inform the
> > > reader of known weaknesses in pagination, before they dive in and
> > > start using it. There are only two things I know of which have been
> > > any hinderance to anybody.
> > > 1. Sorting by another model - Perhaps your model you want to paginate
> > > with has a belongsTo relationship to another model. You may want to
> > > sort by that other model. Currently this is not possible for security
> > > reasons. I'm told it will be done before Cake 1.2 becomes official.
> > > For now though, I am sorry you can only sort by the Model you are
> > > paginating with."
>
> > > So sorting by directly related models seems to be a rather new
> > > feature, so I fear it is generally not possible (without a lot of own
> > > code) to sort by models not directly related.
>
>
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