Thanks for the suggestion. If I do that it back-ticks the whole thing select `x-y` AS `difference` from ...
putting spaces around the minus sign produces similar errors. Is there a way to remove the back ticks for that field? --Andrew On Sep 11, 7:44 am, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming you don't need recursion, try it without the model names, > i.e. > > 'x-y as difference' > > Rick > > On Sep 10, 5:33 pm, Andrew Koebbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to do a simple subtraction as a field in a find statment... > > > ex. > > > $this->Model->find('all',array( > > 'fields' => array( > > 'Model.x - Model.y as difference' > > ) > > )); > > > but it's not parsing that correctly. > > > It's doing "select `Model`.`x - Model.y as difference` from ..." > > > Am I missing something simple here? > > > I know I could do the subtraction outside the query, but I want to be > > able to order the query by the result of this subtraction. > > > Thanks. > > --Andrew > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
