On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Chris <sol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
>
> I'm pretty new to CakePHP and I recently met a problem that I actually
> can not resolve by myself, so I would like some help understanding the
> source of the problem.
>
> I have an events table that contains, with others things, a
> 'location_id' field.
> I have a locations table containing a 'country_id' field.
> And I have a countries table that contains some data related to
> specific countries.
>
> Now, what I would like to get, is a page containing data for a
> specific event: it works. But my array looks like this:
>
>
> Array
> (
> [Event] => Array
> (
> [id] => 1
> [created] => 2010-09-22 23:57:39
> [modified] => 2010-09-22 23:57:39
> [name] => Test event
> [start_date] => 2010-09-23 20:00:00
> [end_date] => 2010-09-24 03:00:00
> [location_id] => 1
> )
>
> [Location] => Array
> (
> [id] => 1
> [name] => My home
> [street] => Here street
> [house_number] => 128
> [zip_code] => 7000
> [city] => Mons
> [country_id] => 1
> )
> )
>
> I'd like to append a branch related to the country. I thought it could
> be "automagically" did, but I probably made a mistake. For now, in my
> events_controller file, I do this to get the data related to the
> location's country:
>
>
> $data['Country'] =
> ClassRegistry::init('Countries')->find(
> 'all', array(
> 'conditions' => 'Countries.id =
> '.$data['Location']['country_id']
> )
> );
> $data['Country'] = $data['Country'][0]['Countries'];
>
> $this->set('data', $data);
>
> But It looks crap and I suppose that a "clean" way to to this exists.
> But I really do not know what to do with that.
As Andrei mentioned, ContainableBehavior will help with that. See here:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/474/Containable
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