Question

I am in a situation where in I need to execute some very big queries, 25~30 joins to generate some periodical reports.

Now we already have these queries created and working, i just want to reuse them and thus used cake model’s query method.

say my code in model is like:

$this->query(
    'select emp.name,mngr.designation 
     from employee emp,manager mngr 
     where manager.emp_id=emp.id'
)

Result I get back is like:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [emp] => Array
            (
                [name] => "Tom"
            )
            [mngr] => Array
            (
                [designation] => "Developer"
            )
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [emp] => Array
            (
                [name] => "Thomas"
            )
            [mngr] => Array
            (
                [designation] => "Developer Manager"
            )
        )
)

Is there a way i can get the following plain vanila structure from the cakephp resultset

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0]=>"Tom"
            [1]=>"Developer"
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [0]=>"Thomas"
            [1]=>"Developer Manager"
        )
)

or associations only at column level but not at table level

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [name]=>"Tom"
            [designation]=>"Developer"
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [name]=>"Thomas"
            [designation]=>"Developer Manager"
        )
)

Answer 1

You can get something similar by using aliases this way:

$this->query(
    'select emp.name AS emp__name, mngr.designation AS mngr__destination 
     from employee emp,manager mngr 
     where manager.emp_id=emp.id'
)

Double underscore __ is important! Take a look also on Sub-queries topic.