As Richard states, you need to use bindModel to force a join from Auction to User. I assume Auction belongsTo Bid as LatestBid and therefore the first query containable runs will include a join to LatestBid.
Therefore you need to run the following before your paginate call $this->Auction->bindModel(array( 'belongsTo'=>array( 'User'=>array( 'foreignKey'=>false, 'conditions'=>array('LatestBid.user_id = User.id') ) ) ), false); If paginating your results you must include the false declaration as the second parameter of bindModel() to the temporary bind is persistent for both the finds paginate runs. HTH Paul Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.