Question

I am trying to build a search function for a cakephp and mysql site. Selecting different parameters like price of the product or the length triggers an ajax call which returns the number of matching results. I want to extend the returned results with the the minimum and maximum values for the lengths and prices. I tried doing this, http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1004813660 . Using the first 4 finds is too time consuming. The last one functions locally, but I get the error;

1140 – Mixing of GROUP columns (MIN(),MAX(),,…) with no GROUP columns is illegal if there is no GROUP BY clause`

remotely, due to ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY being on.

Is it possible to use the last option with some improvements, or can I switch off ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY?

Answer 1

I ended up solving the problem by changing the way I was searching. Instead of doing queries in the conditions that would lead to joins, I explicitly did the searching with where. I had things like,

$conditions = array('Brand.name LIKE'=> '%bla%');

which I replaced it with

 $condtions = array('Yacht.brand_name LIKE' => '%bla%');

I had to restructure the database a bit, but the tradeoff between speed and database normalization is one I can live with.