Question

I have three models linked in this manner: Item->Order->Payment

Order hasMany Item
Order hasOne Payment

Now, I am paginating Items and want to add a condition in it to find only items of that order which has payment of a particular id. I hope that makes sense 😛

I added the condition as:

array(‘Payment.id’=>$id)

but it doesn’t work. Obviously cause Payment is not associated with Item.

So, how can I go about this?

Answer 1

I am new to cakephp, maybe I am completily wrong but as I understand it you can use other models in your controller with the $uses variable. First make a query on payment model to get your order id, than you can use this id to find the corresponding items.

$uses=array('Item','Order','Payment');
$order_id=$this->Payment->find('first',array('fields'=>'order_id','conditions'=>array('id'=>$payment_id)));
$items=$this->Item->find('all',array('conditions'=>array('order_id'=>$order_id)));

I hope it help.