cakephp 2x pagination of a different model - cakephp

Question

I'm trying to paginate Workers which belong(s)To Job within a JobsController.
class JobsController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Jobs';
var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Js');
var $paginate = array(
'Worker' => array(
'limit' => 5,
'recursive' => 0,
'model' => 'Worker',
'order' => array('age' => 'ASC')
),
);
function view($id = null) {
if (!$id) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid Job.'));
$this->redirect(array('action'=>'index'));
return;
}
$this->Job->id = $id;
$workers = $this->paginate('Worker', array('Worker.job_id' => $id));
if ($workers) {
$this->set('workers', $workers);
}
}
In view.ctp:
<?php
$this->Html->script(array('jquery.min'), array('inline' => false));
$this->Paginator->options(array(
'update' => '#content',
'evalScripts' => true,
));
?>
<?php if (isset($workers)): ?>
<?php echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array('model' => 'Worker')); ?>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Info</th>
</tr>
<?php foreach ($workers as $worker): ?>
<tr>
<td>
<?php echo $worker['Worker']['age']; ?>
</td>
<td>
<?php echo $worker['Worker']['info']; ?>
</td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</table>
<?php echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array('model' => 'Worker')); ?>
<p>
<?php
echo $this->Paginator->counter(array(
'model' => 'Worker',
'format' => __('Page %page% of %pages%, showing %current% records out of %count% total.')
));
?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->Js->writeBuffer(); ?>
I'm getting the correct list of workers. But the links generated by numbers are not working. They look like /view/2/page:2/sort:Worker.age/direction:ASC
What am I doing wrong? cakephp version is 2.4.1.

Answer 1

Try this in your view action, by setting the order at run time.
$this->paginate['Worker']['order'] = array('Worker.age' => 'ASC')
Now your function look like this
function view($id = null) {
if (!$id) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Invalid Job.'));
$this->redirect(array('action'=>'index'));
return;
}
$this->Job->id = $id;
$this->paginate['Worker']['order'] = array('Worker.age' => 'ASC');
$workers = $this->paginate('Worker', array('Worker.job_id' => $id));
if ($workers) {
$this->set('workers', $workers);
}
}
Hope this helps you.