Question

i am having trouble with cakephp and writing an sql query, I have the sql code written out but am not sure on how to code it in cake.

`users`          - id, name, address
`accounts`       - id, companyname, abn
`accounts_users` - id, account_id, user_id
`templates`      - id, name, description, account_id
`fields`         - id, name, description, template_id

• users habtm accounts
• accounts habtm users
• accounts hasMany templates
• templates belongsTo accounts
• templates hasMany fields
• fields belongsTo templates

what I am trying to get my find statement in the fieldscontroller, to add the template_id field is to do is this

select t.id
from  template.t, account_users.au, user.u
where t.account_id=au.account_id AND
au.user_id=users.id;

this is the code I have so far in my fields in controller:

function add() {
    $this->Session->setFlash("Please create your required fields.");
    $templates = $this->Template->find('list', array(
        'fields' => array('id'),
        'conditions' => array('id'=> $this->Auth->user('id'))));
    $this->set('templates','$templates');

    if($this->request->is('post')) {
        $this->Field->create(); 

        if ($this->Field->save($this->request->data)) {     
            if ($this->request->data['submit'] == "type_1") { 
                $this->Session->setFlash('The field has been saved');  
                $this->redirect(array(
                    'controller' => 'fields',
                    'action' => 'add'));
            } 
            if ($this->request->data['submit'] == "type_2") {
                $this->Session->setFlash('The template has been saved'); 
                $this->redirect( array('controller' => 'templates','action' => 'index'));
            }
        } else {
            $this->Session->setFlash('The field could not be saved. Please, try again.'); 
        }
    }
}

the sql statement it currently is printing out is

SELECT `Template`.`id` FROM `pra`.`templates` AS `Template` WHERE `id` = 14

id is referring to the users table id

The error is i am trying to get the template_id in the the add form. the find function isn’t getting the template_id’s, it is instead grabbing the user – id

Answer 1

I think there’s something wrong with your field names. Are they in line with the code/name conventions?
Please post the table layout of the models.

if template_id is the primary key for the table templates you should use:

public $primaryKey = 'template_id';

in your templates model.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/models/model-attributes.html#primarykey

and offcourse your getting what your asking. The query should be more like:

$templates = $this->Template->find('list', array(
    'fields' => array('Template.template_id'),
    'conditions' => array('User.id'=> $this->Auth->user('id'))));

But that is dificult to say without your exact table layout.