Question

I have the following find function:

$this->MyModel->find('all', array('conditions' => array('id' => $id)));

which returns an array of this form

Array
(
    [Model1] => Array
        (
            [Model1] => Array
                (
                    ...
                    ...
                )
        )
    [Model2] => Array
       (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    ...
                    ...
                )
            [1] => Array
                (
                    ...
                    ...
                )
            [2] => Array
                (
                    ...
                    ...
                )
            ...
            ...
            ...

            )
)

How do I alter the the find all to limit how many elements the second model are fetched (Model2)?

I can add conditions => array( 'limit' => 10 ) but that limits the number of elements of the outer array – not Model2 i.e. the second nested array!

Any ideas? Thank you :).

Answer 1

You should use cake’s containable behaviour here to limiting the records of your second model. Here’s what you can do using containable to achieve this.

    $this->Model->contain = array('Model2' => array('limit' => 10));
    $this->Model->find('all', array('conditions' => $conditions));

Now you will get maximum of 10 records from Model2.