Question

How would you express the following SQL query as a Kohana’s ORM request and more specifically the where clause?

SELECT items.* 
FROM items 
LEFT JOIN users ON items.user = users.id
WHERE users.name = 'john.doe'

Answer 1

ORM::factory('item')->join('users', 'LEFT')->on('item.user', '=', 'users.id')->where('users.name', '=', 'john.doe')->find_all();

This will produce the following query:

SELECT item.* FROM items LEFT JOIN users ON item.user = users.id WHERE users.name = 'john.doe'

Remember to follow Kohana naming convention (i.e. database name should be plural (users) but the model should be singular (Model_User)).