Learn how to 'force' joins if you are unhappy with containable's extra queries, or more importantly if you want to paginate with conditions on deeper associated models:
Teknoid's blog has loads of good advice aroujnd this subject and also worth a search for his HABTM info. http://teknoid.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/forcing-an-sql-join-in-cakephp/ HTH Paul Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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