In order to fetch data from both tables, you need to join them, Cake won't do this automagically.
On Dec 26, 5:40 pm, "Chad Casselman" <ccassel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Should it bring in all hardcoded (model) associations when I import them? > > Here is what I have and I can't pull any fields from Sequences or > PackagesSequence objects/tables > > var $uses = array('Package','Sequence','PackagesSequence'); > $extra = array( > 'recursive' => 1, //int > 'fields' => array('Package.name', 'Sequence.name'), //array > of field names > ); > > $this->Package->find('all', $extra); > > I get an error that it doesn't know the Sequence table. Thoughts? Do I > have to recode the associations already in the models? > > Chad > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Chad Casselman <ccassel...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > I have a Controller for Jobs with a model Job. > > > > When I hit /jobs (the index function of Job Controller), I need to run a > > > query on 2 other tables (not joined to Job) to find values to manually > > > insert into jobs before actually displaying the index. > > > > I have tried several things but can't seem to make any progress on this. > > > > Can anyone help me with this? > > > > 1) select fields from a join on customers and packages (complex > > conditions) > > > I believe you want to bind those models to each other [1] > > > > 2) iterate through results and insert/update values in job > > > Once you setup the appropriate bindings, you can do a find('all') on > > them and iterate over the results of that. [2] may be clearer. > > > > 3) display jobs > > > I'm guessing that part already works with your index() action. > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Chad > > > [1] > >http://book.cakephp.org/view/86/Creating-and-Destroying-Associations-... > > [2]http://book.cakephp.org/view/83/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM > > > -- > > Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin > > (www.pembo13.com) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---