Joins tables in Cakephp - cakephp

Question

i have a two tables namely; histories and users. i need to display data like:
id | Username | Lastest created Post | First created Post
the data of id and username is from users table and the last created and first created post data is from histories. i need to view all the users, their lastest created post and their first created post. please help me to make controller and view thanks

Answer 1

Try below.
<?php
$users = $this->User->find('all',array
(
'conditions' => array
(
//conditions goes here
),
'fields' => array
(
'User.id',
'User.username',
'History.Lastest created Post',
'History.First created Post'
)
));
?>

Answer 2

Assume that relation between 'User' and 'History' table is One-to-One and there's a 'user_id' column in History table, you may need to specify relation between them in History model, for example:
var $hasOne = array(
'User' => array(
'className' => 'User',
'foreignKey' => 'user_id',
'conditions' => '',
'fields' => '',
'order' => ''
)
);
Then, you need to perform joins to do this. For example, somewhere in your User model, try something like this:
class User extends AppModel {
....
function getAllUsersHistory{
$allHistories = $this->find('all', array(
'joins' => array(
'table' => 'history',
'alias' => 'HistoryJoin'
'type' => 'INNER',
'conditions' => array(
// your conditions, for example: 'History.user_id' => 'User.id'
)
),
'fields' => array(
'User.id',
'User.username',
'History.lastest_created_post',
'History.first_created_post'
)
));
return $allHistories;
}
.....
}