Cake PHP - How to access a special Model found by Pagination? - cakephp

Question

I have the following Code to get a special model related to another model related to actual object: (I want the Entry-model - in the Rubric-model-view)
$this->paginate = array(
'Entrieslocation' => array(
'conditions' => array('Entrieslocation.rubric_id' => $this->Rubric->id, 'Entrieslocation.subrubric_id' => '0'),
'joins' => array(
array(
'alias' => 'Entry',
'table' => 'entries',
'type' => 'INNER',
'conditions' => 'Entry.id = Entrieslocation.entry_id'
)
)
)
);
Then I thought I could get it by something like this:
$this->set('entries', $this->paginate('Entry'));
But the variable is empty, how can I access the Entries inside the Pagination in the view?
The Query generated by the code above is correct, I checked it by entering the query into phpmyadmin. So how can I access the result (only the Entries)?
Thanks for your help :)

Answer 1

First of all you must define $paginate variable below controller class. For example
class UsersController extends AppController {
public $paginate = array();
}
Then in your action follow following patter to get the paginated result.
$this->paginate = array(
'recursive' => -1,
'limit' => 10,
'conditions' => array('Your conditions'),
'fields' => array('Entry.*, Entrieslocations.*'),
'joins' => array(
array(
'table' => 'Entrieslocations',
'alias' => 'Entrieslocation',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => 'Entry.id = Entrieslocation.entry_id'
),
),
'order' => array(
'Entry.id' => 'desc'
)
);
$entries = $this->paginate('Entry');
To pass result set to the view use following:
$this->set('entries', $entries);