Hi, As per the code at http://api13.cakephp.org/view_source/controller/#l-1060and http://api13.cakephp.org/view_source/controller/#l-1128 , I don't think paginate() can sort using the field of model which has more than one level deep relation with the paginated model.
Amit Badkas PHP Applications for E-Biz: http://www.sanisoft.com On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Pete <peterbald...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I suspect this is either really easy or very hard. I've been through > endless apparently similar questions on here but haven't been able to > figure out the answer. > > I have a "Quote" model, which I am trying to list in a view. Quote > belongsTo Attendance which belongs to Person. I am trying to sort the > list of quotes by the first_name field in the Person model. > > The array being sent to the view is > > Array > ( > [0] => Array > ( > [Quote] => Array > ( > [id] => 1 > [attendance_id] => 15 > [quote_text] => Hello > > ) > > [Attendance] => Array > ( > [id] => 15 > [person_id] => 2 > [trip_id] => 7 > [Person] => Array > ( > [id] => 2 > [first_name] => John > [last_name] => Smith > > ) > > ) > ) > > > } > This seems to work fine, and in the view, I can echo out > > foreach ($quotes as $quote) { > echo $quote['Attendance']['Person']['first_name']; > } > without any problem. > > What I cannot get to work is accessing/using the same variable as a > sort field in paginate > > echo $this->Paginator->sort('Name', > 'Attendance.Person.first_name'); > or > > echo $this->Paginator->sort('Location', > 'Attendance.Trip.location'); > > Does not work. It appears to sort by something, but I'm not sure what. > Am I using the correct syntax?. Is there something I should be doing > in a model or controller to make this work? > > Thanks in advance. > > Peter > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<cake-php%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
