Question

I have the following model:

App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class Sync extends AppModel {
    public $belongsTo = array(
        'Unit' => array(
            'className' => 'Sync',
            'foreignKey' => 'parent_id'
        )
    );

    public $hasMany = array(
        'Consultant' => array(
            'className' => 'Sync',
            'foreignKey' => 'parent_id'
        )
    );
}

If I do a $this->Sync->find('all') I get back an array almost the way I want it:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [Sync] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-11-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Unit] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-11-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Consultant] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 11111
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-15 00:00:00
                        )

                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 33333
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-14 00:00:00
                        )
                )
      )
)

The problem is I want to do a condition on the consultants. Like this:

$this->Sync->Consultant->find('all', array(
    'conditions' => array(
        'Consultant.statistic_date BETWEEN ? AND ?' => 'array(
            '2011-12-01 00:00:00', '2011-12-31 00:00:00'
         )'
    )
))

However it does not give me a desired array back:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (

            [Unit] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-11-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Consultant] => Array
                (
                        [id] => 11111
                        [parent_id] => 22222
                        [statistic_date] => 2011-11-15 00:00:00
                )
      )

    [1] => Array
        (

            [Unit] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-12-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Consultant] => Array
                (
                        [id] => 33333
                        [parent_id] => 22222
                        [statistic_date] => 2011-12-14 00:00:00
                )
      )
)

I want it on this form:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (

            [Unit] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-11-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Consultant] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 11111
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-15 00:00:00
                        )
                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 33333
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-14 00:00:00
                        )
                )
      )
)

How do you achieve that? Possible solutions I can think of is by using contain or the Hash:: class, but do not know how.

Any help in the matter will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok, I solved the issue. This is what I did. I bind the model on the fly:

App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');

    class Sync extends AppModel {
    function unit() {
        $this->bindModel(array(
            'hasMany' => array(
                'Consultant' => array(
                    'className' => 'Sync',
                    'conditions' => array(
                        'Consultant.statistic_date BETWEEN ? AND ?' => array('2011-12-01 00:00:00', '2011-12-31 00:00:00')
                    ),
                    'foreignKey' => 'parent_id'
                )
            )
        ));

        return $this->find('all', array(
            'conditions' => array(
                'Sync.id = Sync.parent_id'
            )
        ));
    }
}

This gives me:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (

            [Sync] => Array
                (
                    [id] => 22222
                    [parent_id] => 22222
                    [statistic_date] => 2012-11-14 00:00:00
                )

            [Consultant] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 11111
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-15 00:00:00
                        )
                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [id] => 33333
                            [parent_id] => 22222
                            [statistic_date] => 2011-12-14 00:00:00
                        )
                )
      )
)