Question

Hi I’m currently working on a project and was wondering if it was possible to do two find functions in cakephp?
For example I am making a sports news website and I am grouping the news articles as top story, understory and headline.

What I want to do is retrive top stories so i can highlight these as the prominent story and then understory will be beneath as a lesser story and then headlines will be the least important.

This is what I have so far

   function latestnews() {

$articles =  $this->Article->find('all', 
    array('limit' =>3,
    'order' => 
        array('Article.date_created' => 'desc')));
    if(isset($this->params['requested'])) { 
         return $articles; 
         } 
            $this->set('articles', $articles); 

    $articler = $this->Article->find('all', 
        array('Article.type' => 'topstory',
            'Limit' => '1'
    )); 

        $this->set('articles', $articler);

}

however this doesn’t seem to work, it doesn’t limit the $articles function but instead echos all the data in the table.

in the view im doing a standard foreach statement to echo the data and I get thrown a undefined variable error.

Is what i am saying even possible or should I create different functions and then use them as elements?

Thanks for any input in advance!

Answer 1

Instead of using two find methods in one function I instead chose to simply create different functions and use them as elements for example…

function premiershiptopstory() {

            $pltopnews = $this->Article->find('all', array(
                    'conditions' => array('Article.league' => 'premiership',
                    'Article.type' => 'topstory')));
                        if(!empty($this->request->params['requested'])) {
                        return $pltopnews;}
                        $this->set('article', $pltopnews);  


            }

However in the view you must request the action otherwise you will get thrown an error, to request the action simply use this line of code…

 <?php $pltopnews = $this->requestAction('/Articles/premiershiptopstory');

Hope this helps others!