You can use function find in your model using parameter 'threaded'.
For example if you want to get all children of United States (with id
= 1):
$locations = Location->find('threaded', array('condition' => array
('id' => $id)));
For further reference, look at
http://book.cakephp.org/view/73/Retrieving-Your-Data#find-threaded-812
On Dec 23, 6:54 am, Michael Gaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I have a model setup where a location can link to itself as a parent.
> (states and cities are all locations, San Francisco would have the
> California set to its parent_id). Now my issue is that I am trying to build
> a function that when given a location id, it will return an array of all the
> children id's. For my find call, I am having to nest the same call over and
> over inside the containable array because we can have up to 4 levels of
> children. (World, National, Regional, City, Landmark). Is there a better way
> to do this?
>
> ~Michael
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