Question

I have Users and Dashboards. They both have a HABTM relationship with each other. How do I just retrieve all of a user’s dashboards, without any of the User data?

I tried this but it returns the User model as well:

$this->User->id = $this->Auth->user('id');
$this->User->find('all', array('contain' => 'Dashboard'));

Answer 1

You can set the fields option so that you retrieve only the id field and none of the others. (You probably can’t set it to fetch no fields at all.)

$this->User->find(
    'all', 
    array(
        'contain' => 'Dashboard',
        'fields'  => 'User.id'
    )
);