Question

I know the solutions is simple and might have something to do with the Containable behavior but I can’t get it working. Without all the tries

This is the case. I’d like to display the Event details of an Event (eg. a conference). Each event takes place in a EventVenue and each EventVenue is located in a Country.

So in the Country Model the following is present:

public $hasMany = array(
    'EventVenue' => array(
        'className' => 'EventVenue',
        'foreignKey' => 'country_id'
))

In the EventVenue model a BelongsTo association is made

public $belongsTo = array(
    'Country' => array(
        'className' => 'Country',
        'foreignKey' => 'country_id'
))

And in the Event model a hasOne association is made

 public $hasOne = array(
    'EventVenue' => array(
        'className' => 'EventVenue',
        'foreignKey' => 'event_id',
 ))

What I want is to display the country name on the page that is renderd in the EventsController. I do get all the Event and EventVenue data but the associated Country for the venue is not retrieved.

The data is retrieved in the following way

 $item = $this->Event->findBySlug($slug);

How can I also get the country name (eg. Netherlands) retrieved from the database? I tried something like this but that did not work:

 $item = $this->Event->findBySlug($slug,array(
    'contain' => array(
        'Event' => array(
            'EventVenue' => array(
                'Country'
            )
        )
    )
 )

Answer 1

Try this:

$item = $this->Event->findBySlug($slug,array(
    'contain' => array(
        'EventVenue' => array(
            'Country'
        )
    )
);

Update

Turns out findBy does not support Containable. You could use this to get the desired result:

$item = $this->Event->find('first',array(
    'conditions' => array(
        'Event.slug' => $slug
    ),
    'contain' => array(
        'EventVenue' => array(
            'Country'
        )
    )
);

Oh and make sure you have this in the model: public $actsAs = array('Containable');