I have several models that all share one fields (say name) but differ in other fields. Is there any wan to find all of ModelX ModelY and ModelZ that have name 'foo'. Thanks for any suggestions.
Something like this ?
$models = array('Post', 'Comment', 'Article');
$results = array();
foreach($models as $model) {
$this->loadModel($model);
$results[$model] = $this->{$model}->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(
$model'.name' => $name
)
));
}
If the they are related you should be able to specify the Model followed by '.' within the find.
$this->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(
'OR' => array(
'Article.field' => 'foo',
'Comment.field' => 'foo',
'Post.field' => 'foo',
)
),
'fields' => array('Article.field', 'Comment.field', 'Post.field')
));
Related
I have a model Ranking which holds a contact_id and belongsTo Model Contact.
Model Contact has a costumer_id and belongsTo Model Costumer.
And hasMany Rankings.
There is also a Model Product which hasMany Ranking.
On a statistics page I select
$this->Product->recursive = 1;
$this->set('products', $this->Paginator->paginate())
;
and I get the array of
array(
'Product' => array(
'id' => '69',
),
'Ranking' => array(
(int) 0 => array(
'id' => '29',
'contact_id' => '9',
'product_id' => '69',
'ranking' => '9',
),
I would like to bind now the Contact and Costumer to the ranking based on the contact_id.
Is this manually possible via bindModel?
If yes, how can I do that?
I tried to set $this->Product->recursive = 1; to 2 and 3, but that select so many other things which I would need to clear with unbindModel... So I hope there is a smarter way of bind those model to get to the data...?
What you basically want to use is containable behavior. With this behavior you are able to filter and limit model find operations. You have the possibility to add this behavior on model level or at the controller to avoid side effects if the application has already grown to a complicated level.
Example from Cake-Book:
// Activate Containable Behavior on the fly in a controller
$this->User->Behaviors->load('Containable');
$this->User->contain();
$this->User->find('all', array(
'contain' => array(
'Profile',
'Account' => array(
'AccountSummary'
),
'Post' => array(
'PostAttachment' => array(
'fields' => array('id', 'name'),
'PostAttachmentHistory' => array(
'HistoryNotes' => array(
'fields' => array('id', 'note')
)
)
),
'Tag' => array(
'conditions' => array('Tag.name LIKE' => '%happy%')
)
)
)
));
Hope this gives you a push into the right direction.
using find it will get me the right data with this:
$this->set('products', $this->Product->find('all', array(
'contain' => array(
'Ranking' => array(
'Contact' => array(
'foreignKey' => 'contact_id',
'Customer' => array(
'foreignKey' => 'customer_id',
)
)
)
)
)));
When using the Paginator it looks like
$this->Paginator->settings['contain'] = array(
'Ranking' => array(
'Contact' => array(
'foreignKey' => 'contact_id',
'Customer' => array(
'foreignKey' => 'customer_id',
)
)
)
);
$this->Product->Behaviors->load('Containable');
$this->set('products', $this->Paginator->paginate());
Thanks so much!!
I am working on a cakephp 2.x .. I have two tables in my database both have the userid I am using bindModel.. my query is working fine ... I just have one problem .. I want to add the condition in where clause that
**where userid = $userid**
function getMessages($userid){
$this->bindModel(array(
'belongsTo' => array(
'Contact' => array(
'className' => 'Contact',
'foreignKey' => false,
'conditions' => array(
'Message.user_id = Contact.user_id',
'AND' =>
array(
array('OR' => array(
array('Message.mobileNo = Contact.mobileNo'),
array('Message.mobileNo = Contact.workNo'),
)),
)
),
'type' => 'LEFT',
)
)
), false);
return $this->find('all', array('conditions' => array(),
'fields' => array('Message.mobileNo'
),
'group' => 'Message.mobileNo',
'limit' => 6));
}
I am getting user id in parameter ... so I want to add the condition that get the following result where
message.userid and contact.userid = $userid ...
Just split the conditions in two lines like:
'conditions' => array(
'Contact.user_id' => $userid,
'Message.user_id = Contact.user_id',
[...]
)
But the approach that makes more sense is to leave the bind as is - after all the bind is generally between message users and contact users with the same id - and add the condition for the specific case in your find('all') with 'Message.user_id' => $userid.
In my CakePHP app I have three tables:
Businesses, Towns and Categories.
A business can belong to multiple towns and multiple categories so I have created joining tables and hasMany and belongsTo relationships. Everything works fine when finding businesses by either Town or Category by using the Town or Category model to search, but I am completely stuck when I want to search for businesses in a certain town AND a certain category, eg. Plumbers in London.
The associations just don't seem to work when searching with the Business model and I get column not found errors when trying to use the associated tables. I would think that this would be along the lines of what needs to be done, but I can't get it to work:
$this->set('listings', $this->Business->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(
'Business.approved' => 1,
'BusinessesCategory.category_id' => $id,
'BusinessesTown.town_id' => $town_id,
'Business.sasite' => 1
)
You need to join the tables to do that.
I will put above a example how has to work with category and you can do the town yourself.
$this->Business->find("all", array(
"joins" => array(
array(
"table" => "businness_categories",
"alias" => "BusinessesCategory",
"type" => "LEFT",
"conditions" => array(
"Businesses.id = BusinessesCategory.business_id"
)
),
array(
"table" => "categories",
"alias" => "Category",
"type" => "LEFT",
"conditions" => array(
"BusinessesCategory.category_id = Category.id"
)
)
),
'conditions' => array(
'Business.approved' => 1,
'Category.id' => $id,
)
));
You also could use a behavior to do that for you:
https://github.com/Scoup/SuperJoin
Hi I had a very similar setup and the same problem. This is how I would solve your problem:
As you dont give away to much of your code I make some assumptions:
- You implemented your search method in the BusinessController
- Your search argument for the town is stored in vaiable $where and the one for Category is stored in $what
Code if you only have conditions for one table
$this->Businesses->Town->recursive = -1;
....
$options['joins'] = array(
array('table' => 'towns',
'alias' => 'Town',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => array(
'Business.town_id = Town.id',
)
)
);
$options['conditions'] = array(
'Town.townName' => $where
);
$result = $this->Business->find('all', $options);
Code if you have conditions for two table
$this->Businesses->Town->recursive = -1;
$this->Businesses->Category->recursive = -1;
....
$options['joins'] = array(
array('table' => 'towns',
'alias' => 'Town',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => array(
'Business.town_id = Town.id',
)
),
array('table' => 'categories',
'alias' => 'Category',
'type' => 'inner',
'conditions' => array(
'Business.category_id = category.id',
)
)
);
$options['conditions'] = array(
'Town.townName' => $where,
'Category.categoryName' => $what
);
$result = $this->Business->find('all', $options);
You can use
$this->Business->find('all', array(
'conditions' => array(
'AND' => array(
'BusinessesTown.town_id' => $town_id,
'BusinessesCategory.category_id' => $id
)
),
'recursive' => 2
));
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 :)
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);
I use the plugin cakedc search, but there is one thing I can not seem to find, I have a form with two fields, and I would add for example "online = 1" to my search
in my controller, I trying:
public function find() {
$this->Prg->commonProcess();
$array = array('type'=>'post', 'online'=>'1', 'created'=> '<= NOW()');
$this->passedArgs = Set::merge($this->passedArgs, $array);
$this->paginate = array(
'conditions' => array($this->Post->parseCriteria($this->passedArgs)),
);
$this->set('posts', $this->paginate());
model:
public $displayField = array('name', 'category_id');
public $filterArgs = array(
array('name' => 'name', 'type' => 'query', 'method' => 'filterName'),
array('name' => 'category_id', 'type' => 'value')
);
.....
debug($this->passedArgs):
array(
'name' => 'mon',
'category_id' => '2',
'type' => 'post',
'online' => '1',
'created' => '<= NOW()'
)
but $array argument are not taken in my search
Can anyone help?
I am a beginner with cakephp,
Thanks a lot !
Instead of
'conditions' => array($this->Post->parseCriteria($this->passedArgs)),
try
'conditions' => $this->Post->parseCriteria($this->passedArgs),
I also recommend you to use DebugKit and to add the generated query to your question in the case it is still not working.